Quotes About Control

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

I wasn't asking anything about God, Jonah complained. Yeah, you kind of were, JB said. If there is fate, who else would control it?

People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny.

They don't have any idea I work for the Population Police.

He could hear himself screaming and he knew it was his death cry. Still he fought on, as he had fought all his life. I...will...control... The words came from his mouth, stained with his blood... I will control... Reaching out, his hands closed over the Staff on Magius. I will!

We both loved other things more, and that came near destroying us." "What things?" "Power, for one. Glory, for another. Pride, ambition, the need to control everything around us.

The only throne that kid's gonna sit on is the kind you flush.

And that's my title, now. Master of the Games.

Rule the world, Raistlin repeated softly, his eyes burning. Rule the world? You still don't undestand, do you, my dear sister? Let me make this as plain as I know how. Now it was his turn to stand up. Pressing his thin hands upon the desk, he leaned towards her, like a snake. I don't give damn about the world! he said softly. I could rule it tomorrow, if I wanted it! I don't.

Stratton, of course, had the advantage: Olive knew he controlled the book's production and understood that too much sympathy for the devil would reflect badly on her, reducing her chances of "resuming her position in society," as the Daily Alta had put it. Olive was again a captive—this time of her ghostwriter.

Each day, following her walk, she must have felt all the more reassured: if she willed it, people scarcely saw her, she was almost invisible. She thought that she had been cast into a mold, the identity of which was extremely vague and to which a variety of names might be given, an identity whose visibility she could control.

One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, with the same grumbling laconism that he would have employed to predict a good harvest to his tenants, that I should rule the world.

Life was to me a horse to whose motion one yields, but only after having trained the animal to the utmost.

Sometimes one controls one's acts; one controls less often one's thoughts; one never controls one's dreams. I had dreams.

Maar de menselijke geest accepteert niet graag dat hij afhankelijk is van het toeval, dat hij slechts het voorbijgaande product is van kansen waarover geen enkele god zeggenschap heeft, hijzelf zeker niet.

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out. Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.

as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

What is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? Why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? We are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs and if human beings were cars, we would return them for being faulty.

No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.