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Quotes About Control

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
~ Alan King
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
~ Benito Mussolini
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
~ Bernardo Bertolucci
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
~ Gautama Buddha
You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
~ Harold S. Kushner
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
It is said that life and death are under the power of language.
~ Helene Cixous
Control your destiny or somebody will.
~ Jack Welch
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
~ James Dobson
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
~ William S. Burroughs
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
~ Saul Williams
Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.
~ Suze Orman
Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.
~ T. Harv Eker
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
~ Tom Robbins
Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.
~ Melody Beattie
Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control.
~ Pete Wilson
Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
~ Phil McGraw
The quality of life decreases with heightened security.
~ Rebecca Miller
It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!
~ Rick Santorum
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.
~ Cecil Day-Lewis
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Learn how to regulate one's own house well.
~ Chilon of Sparta