Quotes About Control

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

Your mind is either your most powerful ally or your worst enemy. The choice is yours.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.

Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds.

I had a kind of idea if you controlled your mind and said, 'I won't have any babies' very hard, they most likely wouldn't come. I thought that was what was meant by birth-control, but by this time I knew that idea was quite wrong.

Tenía la idea de que, si ejercías un control mental y te decías muy seria: «No tendré hijos», seguramente no vendrían.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

turned off the BlackBerry before James could text back. I might hate electronic wizardry, but it was my ally now. I could use it or not, could respond to James or not, and with my calls simply showing "New York" on his caller ID, he had no idea where I was.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.

spine. She told herself not to get carried away. He was

The future is not set; there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

Maybe we both need to realize that we're giving our families and our pasts too much power over us.

She swallowed back

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist.

New laws, new restrictions, new regulations, were put in place regularly. The purpose was always to crush, to destroy, not to aid. They were being bled white all in the guise of the greater good.

I'm so glad to have a feisty female around here to help me keep these boys under control. I been needing a girl on my team.