Quotes About Control

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.

I wanted to leave ESPN when control of 'The Undefeated' was taken from me.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredible fantasy... I think the American fantasy is still about men wanting control. Maybe American men don't feel as in control of their lives.

I constantly have little panic attacks of wanting to change something on a production level, but I let go.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.