Quotes About Control

Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

A country without a strong leader will go down.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.

Anyone who ever witnessed Ueli Steck flying up the Eigerwand would know that he was always in control of his actions. He was always moving with immense precision and a sense of safety.

Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

That's always been the driving force on the show, we're the ones who should be getting put in bad situations not the other people, they're more like witnesses. That's really like the big spin that we thought was good.

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.

Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.

I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She's in control.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it's the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.