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Quotes About Control

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.
~ Samuel Rutherford
duties are ours, events are the Lord's.
~ Samuel Rutherford
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The planet has been taken over by testosterone-fuelled madness.
~ Sandi Toksvig
I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.
~ Sandra Brown
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Go on," he said when his blood
~ Sandra Hill
handling my ash is verboten right now.
~ Sandra Hill
You must surrender your attachment to the outcome in order to make your greatest dreams come true. You must release your urgency and your need for control. Then your attitude of Trust will actually accelerate the Universal Laws, helping the process along.
~ Sandra Taylor
There's no outside component that you need to be concerned with. You control the light and joy that comes into your life.
~ Sandra Taylor
Emotions keep us human, but control over them is power.
~ Sanita Belgrave
We don't usually think about dementia when we're entering our prime, but we should, because it provides a remarkable opportunity. Data from longitudinal observational studies accumulated over the past few decades have shown that aside from age, most other risk factors for brain disease can be controlled. That means you indeed have a powerful voice in controlling your risk for decline.
~ Sanjay Gupta
It is your you that bosses you around all day, raises important as well as inane questions, beats you up emotionally on occasion,
~ Sanjay Gupta
The VOC was interested in Sri Lanka because of its cinnamon production and strategic location, since control of Sri Lanka implied an improved ability to check navigation between the western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. In
~ Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Nasib memang diserahkan kepada manusia untuk digarap, tetapi takdir harus ditandatangani di atas materai dan tidak boleh digugat kalau nanti terjadi apa-apa, baik atau buruk.
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
Don't madden my mind
~ Sappho
Women who sought ways to limit the size of their families were to Comstock proof that humankind was on the brink of self-destruction. But not all women; he focused his ire on white women of good families, who were obliged, in his view of the world, to provide heirs for the ruling class.
~ Sara Donati
What you have to understand about the Guccis," Jenny told a journalist in 1994, "is that they are all completely mad, incredibly manipulative, and not very clever. They have to be in control, but as soon as they get what they want, they crush it! They are destroyers, it's as simple as that!
~ Sara Gay Forden
Much of my life was a dreary grind in which I was responsible for everything, always. For someone else to take that responsibility, even for a few minutes, was pure pleasure.
~ Sara Gran
But now I believe the book had its own story, a story it was writing the whole time. We were only characters in it, with no more choice than characters in a novel.
~ Sara Gran
I'm not angry." But he forced his fists open and counted ten slow breaths, fighting it the way he always did. Because what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.
~ Sara Pennypacker
When the game ended, Mike laid down his control paddle. "So you've met the Nordic goddess, right?" Aria glanced up at him warily. "Excuse me?" Mike rolled his eyes. " Duh. Klaudia, which I'm pretty sure is Scandinavian for sex vixen .
~ Sara Shepard
They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move.
~ Sara Shepard
No matter how much any one of us wanted to play God, no matter how much we wished it were possible, the world wasn't supposed to be in the hands of just one person
~ Sara Shepard