Quotes About Control

The First Triumvirate proved that men with the support of the people and soldiers of Rome, lots of money, and a fair amount of nerve could disregard the ruling class and, in effect, hijack the Republic.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it." --Quintus Tullius Cicero

We rule the world and our wives rule us.

Give priests power and they soon start persecuting anyone who disagrees with them.

Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant. Being thus able to manage me, she was equal to coping with the butler.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size.

You must control your emotions. You must control your feelings. If there is any fear or insecurity, you must destroy it before it destroys you. It is not the size or the strength of your opponent that matters. These can be measured. It is what cannot be measured...courage, determination...that count.

If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.

And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.

Judith set up Colin with his chambers and she got him into the States. It's her house they live in and her wealth that keeps their three children in private school. And God help him if he steps out of line. She's the one who wears the trousers in that relationship.

But the worst of it was the sense of helplessness — that events had taken over and I was being steered by them rather than the other way round.

Modern life is a great tapestry, and if you wish to take control of it all, you must seize hold of every strand.

And before you interrupt me, Colin, you're probably one of them. He had you twisted round his little finger.

away from him. We wouldn't want there to be any more misunderstandings, would we?' 'I thought you said I had carte blanche.

Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own...

I controlled him and made sure that I pressed all the right buttons for a young audience. He didn't smoke. He didn't swear. He didn't have a gun. And he certainly wasn't homophobic.

them cradling automatic machine guns. Mrs. Stellenbosch

The thing is, Alex, you're never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win.

One day, he knew, he would have had enough. He wouldn't be able to control himself any more. And then what? He had no idea.

We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer..." "Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.

The USA — its future as a nation and as a political, social, economic, and moral ideal — is now in the control of a few powerful individuals, groups, institutions, and nations. Those in control have shown little interest or concern for the nation and its citizens. They are the new robber barons of the old Gilded Age. And,