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Quotes About Control

What does America love more than one white male?
~ Paul Mooney
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
~ Leonard Cohen
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.
~ Paulo Coelho
I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.
~ Marion Cotillard
You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
~ Cedric Hardwicke
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
~ John Ford
Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates
~ Robert Ludlum
Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.
~ Kevin Hart
I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.
~ Vera Farmiga
When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.
~ Michael Jackson
Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.
~ James Scott Bell
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
~ John Adams
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
~ Diane Ackerman
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
~ George Santayana
Fear is stronger than love
~ Tupac Shakur
I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.
~ Antonio Esfandiari
I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.
~ Bobby Charlton
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
~ Sophocles
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
~ Billie Holiday
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant