Quotes About Control

I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest-- not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody.

Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Might makes right.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control your mind and your mouth

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth.

Where water is boss, the land must obey

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)

Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.