Quotes About Control

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. WINSTON CHURCHILL

The apostle Paul stated it clearly when he said, "In your anger do not sin" (Ephesians 4:26). The challenge is not "Don't get angry;" the challenge is not to sin when we are angry.

You are the gatekeeper of your child's mental diet.

Anger" is one letter short of "danger." AUTHOR UNKNOWN

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. WILL ROGERS

If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. —James 1:26

When people let you down, remember that your loving Father is still in charge. — Ginger Livingston

Anger was designed to be a visitor, never a resident, in the human heart.

For most of us, anger control will be something we must learn as adults, and that means unlearning old habits.

Restraining our response is not the same as storing our anger. It is refusing to take the action that we typically take when feeling angry.

The Bible doesn't say it's a sin to be angry, just not to respond in sinful ways or let it control us. — Julie Durham —

Don't sin by letting anger control you." Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry. —Ephesians 4:26

Author Ambrose Bierce said, "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they're prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

They say nature abhors a vacuum, but it doesn't like two take-charge personalities in the same vicinity either.

Control of your mind even gives you the power to stop pain

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.

That's what tyrants can do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true.

Maybe there really only was one singular white man staring down at the world from his official boots and his official vehicle and his official sunglasses hanging high over his official smirk.

Power is not a means, Vinston; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." I

Faith is, at heart, the central relationship that gives meaning to our life; we are able to interpret our experiences in light of that relationship. Or as Katherine Dyckman and L. Patrick Carroll put it, To `faith' is to hand over the direction of one's journey to another, to yield up . . . `the illusion of control' to someone who is essentially beyond our control, over whom we have no power (1981:8 9).

Choice is a subtle form of disease. Don DeLillo, Running Dog

I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.