Quotes About Control

Lean back, tighten abs, keep arms locked, look for a place to land my hands.

When you enforce virtue, you deny a woman's right to make an unacceptable choice with her own body. This conflict is old wine in new bottles; it is nothing less than the age-old battle between freedom and control.

Sarah also compared a Louisiana law that said everything possessed by a slave belonged to his master with a law that said, "A woman's personal property by marriage becomes absolutely her husband's which, at his death, he may leave entirely from her.

The regime was basically doing everything possible to put sects against each other and create a toxic environment, where nobody trusts anybody and nobody knows who's in control. Every side had its own enemy. For Alawites, the enemy was extremist radicals. For Sunnis, it was the shabeeha.

Kingship seemed cursed to drive many men mad.

Thorne had to bite down hard on his tongue to keep from reacting to all the golden hair that tumbled down onto the man's shoulders.

Madame Merle says, "I don't pretend to know what people are meant for. . . . I only know what I can do with them.

SCOOP: Peter, do people like you ever wonder what it's all for? PETER: People like you run the world. You decide what it's all for.

Never let them see you sweat. Nicole Grant, former dating guru and A-list matchmaker, knew it was a bad sign when the philosophy you were living by came from a deodorant commercial.

Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,

The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken. —Samuel Johnson

Backstage controls the show, not the audience."

God is holding this planet, I'm wondering when he decides to let go.

The difference between the human and the zombie is that the human dominates the conscience and the zombie is consciousness-dominated.

The difference between the scarecrow and the mannequin is that they both don't know they are being used by others.

I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto

YOU must ask for help when anxiety makes you feel out of control. Because we need you. We need you to be well and whole and taking care of yourselves. I know that the prevailing rise of anti-intellectualism that's plaguing our world right now can be unbelievably depressing.

I live with depression and anxiety.* I take medication, I practice meditation and CBT, and I see a therapist regularly to help me handle it. It doesn't control my life, and it doesn't define my life . . . but when it's really bad, it sure feels like it does. When it's really bad, it feels like it is the only thing in my entire life, the Alpha and Omega of my existence.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us.

Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar.

Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.