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Quotes About Control

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
~ bell hooks
Love takes your choices away.
~ Cassandra Clare
I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.
~ Catherine Opie
People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.
~ Cesar Millan
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
~ Jackson Browne
I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.
~ Beyonce Knowles
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.
~ Roger Ebert
I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.
~ Shane Black
I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.
~ David Cone
On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.
~ Frederick Lenz
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
~ Graham Greene
You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.
~ Jeb Bush
I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket.
~ Stan Lee
I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
~ Tyra Banks
Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?
~ Yasheng Huang
It hits all the same buttons. Stop. Go. Up. Down.
~ Maureen Johnson
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.
~ Maurice Blanchot
I'll eat you up!
~ Maurice Sendak
Max dijo QUIETOS y los amansó con el truco mágico de mirar fijamente a los ojos amarillos de todos ellos sin pestañear una sola vez y se asustaron y dijeron que era el más monstruo de todos.
~ Maurice Sendak
A panic state is not helpful to good decision making.
~ Max Barry