Quotes About Control

Only those who have been truly afraid can understand the crippling hold it can have on you.

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

If you didn't have a choice, you have to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let the world happen to you.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and lt me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel.

No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check.

His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.

We are masters of the unsaid words,                               but                     slaves of those we let slip out.              Ã¢â'¬â€Winston Churchill

The country will have the economy of Uganda, but Democrats will be in total control.

The only purpose of government—as opposed to the state of nature—is to replace "might makes right" with a system of justice.

The damage in many cases was lifelong. These women had not just surrendered a child. They had surrendered control over the most important decision they might ever make to people who they felt did not necessarily have their best interest at heart. The shame was no longer about being single and pregnant. The shame was that they had given away, or not fought hard enough to keep, their child.

Imani's sit command worked the first time for every dog except the bull terrier and the dachshund, who clearly had minds of their own. Britty finally sat, but she looked like a small coiled spring about to leap into the air. When Shug, the bull terrier, eventually responded to her owner's gentle pressure, she swung her back end around so that it rested on her owner's foot.

The sense that we are unified subjects is a fiction, produced by a multitude of separate processes and structures of which we are not aware and over which we exert no conscious control.

You are not in control of your mind—because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.15 You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Choices, efforts, intentions, and reasoning influence our behavior—but they are themselves part of a chain of causes that precede conscious awareness and over which we exert no ultimate control.

many a brute appears to have seized Fortune herself by the skirts.

divine authority behind government

You believe that your religious concerns about sex, in all their tiresome immensity, have something to do with morality. And yet, your efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting adults—and even to discourage your own sons and daughters from having premarital sex—are almost never geared toward the relief of human suffering.

You can do what you decide to do-but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

The problem with the prohibition of any desirable commodity is money.

You've flaunted my authority, coddled that boy, and let him do as he pleases.

Stoicism doesn't mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but—in essence—focusing on what is in our power and letting go of everything we can't control.