Quotes About Control

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

You're scared of what you can't control

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

I can't really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

A planned life is a dead life.