Quotes About Control

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.

You really believe that there are subjects that shouldn't be photographed?' George said. He spoke evenly and softly. 'Maybe I do,' I said, thinking aloud. 'You believe in censorship then,' said Stephen. I looked up at Stephen. His face was tight, combative. 'Not censorship,' I said slowly. 'That's external. I mean control from the inside. After all, pictures can lie, too, can convey falseness rather than truth.

We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.

Despite my efforts, I was something less than a model student, subject to passionate eruptions in class and wild excursions into related topics. At home I rehearsed calm deliveries, practiced lowering my voice to make it sound authoritative and cool, but in the heat of the moment, I would always forget.

The fear came from the fact that what he did was unpredictable. He did not play by the rules, and once those rules had been broken, I imagined that anything was possible

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

Can love be controll'd by advice?