Quotes About Control

Ä°nsanlar?n gönlünü hoÅŸ tutmal? ya da onlar? yok etmelidir çünkü insanlar uÄŸrad?klar? küçük zararlar?n öcünü al?rlar büyük zararlar?n öcünü alamazlar bu yüzden insana verilecek zarar intikam korkusu yaratmayacak biçimde olmal?d?r

Krall?k etmek için bir krall?k d???nda hiçbir eksiÄŸi yoktu. (Quod nihil illi deerat ad regnandum praeter regnum)

This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficult to combine love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

It is unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

Violence must be inflicted once for all, people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful.

Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn.

If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be—we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.

In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that the people do no want freedom.

If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be -- we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.

One definition of hell is having your own way all the time.

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go of our sane self-control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the Spirit.

You might call IT the Boss." Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. "IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist.

Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create

Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create," Charles Wallace said. "This fire is to help and heal.

We live under the illusion that if we can acquire complete control, we can understand God or we can write the great American novel.

You're not responsible for how you feel. You're responsible for what you do

he must not know how much power he had to move her.

I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life but you're not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you -- it's already organised.' It's all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.

Things were progressing as expected, which was to say that she had lost control of her life. In