Quotes About Control

I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.

I've always found that if your life is hurtling out of control, it's best to bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies.

Although pharma is expanding in China by replacing local remedies, prices are being controlled. Here in the United States that's not the case, because your politicians are dependent on pharma campaign donations. There is much more money to be made here in all aspects of healthcare, even if there are more problems with labor.

The Dark Goddess emphasized that change and rebirth were always inherent in the present moment. She had forgotten that. That all life was change. Perhaps she never connected with deeper truths unless she relaxed and was still. Her life had galloped out of control, and perhaps she was trying too hard to think about it, force it into patterns she knew, instead of learning new patterns.

That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion.

If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

This terrible event – whatever it was – is over and done. Cling to it and let it shape you and you are doomed to live it forever. You are granting it power over you. Set it aside, and shape your future as you wish it to be, in spite of what happened to you. Then you have seized control of it.

Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad." "Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?

There is always power in holding a secret.

for so long I'd been told what the rules were that I couldn't see they were just rules made by men. And if men can make rules, then other men can change them.

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.

Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.

Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.

For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.

Bee. Nothing happens to you. You happen to everything.

It was not that she was a better-tempered person, she decided detachedly. It was that her anger had learned a terrible patience. What good was wasting words on a petty and tyrannical second mate? He was a little yapping dog. She was a tigress. One did not waste snarls on such a creature. One waited until one could snap his spine with a single blow.

I could do as my father did: that is, lift my eyes and meet her gaze and let nothing of what I was thinking show in my face.

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

If ever you make it so they don't need you, they will kill you.

The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it. p. 46 The Fool to Fitz

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives but have no bonds to them.

For time is the great enslaver of us all.