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Quotes About Control

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
~ Aristotle
Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult issue.
~ Bernie Sanders
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
~ Cory Doctorow
The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
~ Amy Hempel
Time is the supreme Law of nature.
~ Arthur Eddington
I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.
~ Madchen Amick
If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
~ Matthew Henry
Nae man can tether time or tide.
~ Robert Burns
You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.
~ Robert Young
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
~ Sarah Dessen
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
~ Seneca the Younger
One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
~ Susan Glaspell
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
~ T. S. Eliot
Happy Tuesday! We are responsible for peace and order in our lives! When your world is CONSTANTLY filled with chaos, then it's time to take a look at SELF!
~ Tracey Edmonds
We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.
~ Joel Garreau
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
~ Milan Kundera
All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time
~ Aldous Huxley
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening
~ Brian De Palma
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.
~ Deepak Chopra
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
~ Dick Cavett