Quotes About Control

Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I believe in local control of education.

As they say in Washington, laws are for the little people.

Rather, I believe it is a fundamental deficiency in self-regulation generally and executive functioning specifically—the ability to look toward the future and to control one's behavior based on that foresight.

Taking Charge of ADHD.

It's like Kilroy only talking about Big Brother and there's no racism allowed.

It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience to be able to land them again on the solid earth of sober thinking.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

To begin with unlimited freedom," Dostoevsky wrote, "is to end with unlimited despotism.

Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individual, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.

Those were his exact words, "an insatiable lust for power and money".

Scientology processing, which tended to produce subservience amounting almost to mental enslavement.

Where land was controlled by noblemen and/or the Church in other parts of Europe, in the province of Holland, circa 1500, only 5 percent of the land was owned by nobles, while peasants owned 45 percent of it.

There is no higher authority.

Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.

The war was like a slow-burning campfire onto which both sides occasionally threw wood. And that's probably the way it would have continued, if not for the arrival of the Autodefensas.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

The only way to deal with fear is to treat it like an unwelcome guest. If you keep entertaining it, you'll never be rid of it.