Quotes About Control

The last time you lost your cool like this, you ended up throwing Will Clarke off a rooftop.

I swear, the only thing worse than an angry woman, is an angry woman who's got a big stick to whack you with.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in a system of thought

Tobacco is not like wine but is rather more like smallpox or heroin.

What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life.

If the current controlled the way nerves worked in the brain as well as in the rest of the body, then it must regulate consciousness to some extent.

Fortified by our new knowledge that electricity controlled growth in bone, we returned instead to the nerves, taking a closer look at how their currents stimulated regrowth.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Many of us have experienced the difficulty in successfully 'giving up' doing something; too often, trying to give it up seems only to keep one focused on the forbidden object or enterprise — enhancing the desire rather than taming it…

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.

Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.

Since the dawn of time, God has done things that baffle humanity. He still confounds me... I can't control what happened, but I can control how I respond to what happened. It wasn't about what happened to me; it was about what happened within me.

Medicine today has become a religion and the doctors are the priests of that religion, very powerful priests...they can tell you to" (insert command here) "and you usually do it.

old Google Glass monitored what people watched; now Google Everywhere monitors what they think. Although Glass came to know Scoble better than even his spouse, Everywhere knows him better than he knows himself.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.

It was the income-determination model, based on the multiplier, together with the consequent development of national income statistics, which made Keynesian economics acceptable to policy-makers, since it offered them a seemingly secure method of forecasting and controlling the movement of such 'real' variables as investment, consumption, and employment.

They intend to make people's very appetites the next weapon of uncountable destruction. They intend that your people will lust themselves into oblivion in front of little boxes of changing light. Addictive light. A light that makes you feel like you live a life, when all you really do is eat what the light tells you to eat and squirt pee and pump poo. And watch the changing light!

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. - The Greatness of Saturn

Kings did not meet systematic opposition from barons, parliaments or peasants. With no police force or standing army, other than the household retinue, they could keep order and enforce the law only because their subjects, from earls to villeins, provided the muscle to do so.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

The best way to predict the future," observes magician Gregory Wilson, "is to influence it."17