Quotes About Control

He became, really, the best utilizer of information to control absentee ownerships that there's ever been. Which gave him the ability to open as many stores as he opens, and run them as well as he runs them, and to be as profitable as he makes them.

I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I ever wanted was to have control- to be in charge of myself and the rest of the world.

Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find:

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig;Some that are mad if they behold a cat;And others, when the bag-pipe sings i' th' nose,Cannot contain their urine, for affection.Shakesp.Merchant of Venice.2. Passion

ADESPOTICK  (ADESPO'TICK)   adj. Not absolute; not despotick.Dict.

I hate my life.' I want to say, I know. I kind of hate mine, too. But I don't think you're allowed to say that to your children. You're supposed to protect them from realizing how excruciating things can get and that you have no control.

Answers are the opiate of the people!

While basking in the limelight, one sacrificed privacy. Anonymity has distinct advantages. Keeping to the background afforded one much more maneuverability and, thereby, power.

cosmic puppeteer might be listening

What they had most feared had happened, and yet what lay ahead was a wonderful plan they could not have imagined on their own. God had things well under control.

The system that supports you can also be used to control you

Most of them don't even mind being surveilled anymore if they think it keeps them safe, and women's rights are always the first thing to go backward in a crisis.

I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me..

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

We all own a beast called anger. It can serve us: many good things come of anger at bad things; many unjust things are made just. But first we all have to figure out how to civilize it.

Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A

Do you know hot to drive? he asked. Sure, she said. This one is the gas.

It was strange letting her body do such things, while her mind hovered outside somewhere, just on the outside of her skull. Strange for things to be fuzzy, always out of reach, whether doorknobs or flowers or her own baby. She was no longer intact or in control.

So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.