Quotes About Control

Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.

Men are only too ready to be swayed by senseless passion.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

This led to a discussion of whether volcanoes were really the fires from Vulcan's forge or some sort of natural phenomenon, like storms and floods. I was of the latter opinion, because Vulcan is reputed to be the greatest of smiths and I doubt he would let his fires get out of control.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

And when you trust your television, What you get is what you got, Cause when they own the information, oh, They can bend it all they want.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

Connors always had the ability to turn his anger on and off, which amazed me. I was a one-way street—mad, madder, and maddest. There must have been thousands of times, in tense situations, when a joke was on the tip of my tongue, and instead of saying something funny, I'd just let loose.

In adopting system life, people choose to yield sovereignty in exchange for the promise of predictability. Even families and communities turn over their sovereignty for the promise of a safe and predictable future.

You'll want to meet with the Champion for each of the forecasted deals to ensure your rep has a Champion and is in control." Maniacally qualifying deals early in the quarter by visiting the Champions of your reps' forecasted deals in the first month of a quarter is one of the surest methods of gaining a deep understanding of your forecast.

Call it the bipolar's dilemma: Take a chance and we risk losing control of our brains. Play it safe and we isolate ourselves from humanity.

La libertad y la democracia vienen a significar lo que el sistema requiera

the mistress of ceremonies, in her

Electra is a small person who steps on others to make herself feel big

Restraint was a mountaintop on a faraway continent.

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.

Life is exactly as terrifying as you want it to be.