Control Quotes
Michael Bassey Johnson
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.
2381 Patrick Ness
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.
1467 David Rovics
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
2323 Scott A. Butler
There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.
1717 Craig Ferguson
Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.
3207 Kurt Vonnegut
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.
2582 Roger Harrison
Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.
1822 Michael Bassey Johnson
If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!
2498 Agnostic Zetetic
Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.
4499 Bryant McGill
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.
4004 Aldous Huxley
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
2390 Simona Panova
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
2982 Bazil Patel
Two things u just can't control life and virginity ❤ ❤
2172 C.S. Woolley
I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.
3162 John Geddes
...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...
3075 Tiffany Madison
We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.
4688 Orson Scott Card
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
1342 A.J. Darkholme
They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.
1716 Sara Sheridan
I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.
3463 Anthony Liccione
Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
3871 Michael Bassey Johnson
Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
2441 Evan Meekins
Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.
4553 Gillian Flynn
I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.
3414 Chrostoph Morris
If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.
3038 Christopher Morris
If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.
1010 Litymunshi
we can't even control a blind man's desire to see the world by his own eye,philosophy is to see outside by inside.
4385 Veronica Roth
That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
4262 Ralph Ellison
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
2634 Coco Chanel
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
4700 Bill Watterson
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
1140 Friedrich Nietzsche
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
3851 A.S. King
Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.
4979 Chuck Palahniuk
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
2733 Thomas à Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
4757 Toba Beta
Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people.
By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.
2695 Toba Beta
Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
4121 Epictetus
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous - even death is terrible only if we fear it.
3951 Laura Munson
Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.
3631 Gary Hopkins
Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.
1255 Gretchen Rubin
This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.
3475 Glenn Pemberton
We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have a decision to make: keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away or start learning how to live within the rain.
2317 Wm. Paul Young
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
1091 Jim George
The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.
1031 Elizabeth George
We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.
1000 Alain De Botton
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
2134 Bethany Morrell
Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.
3047 John Stuart Mill
Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.
4217 J. P. Vinluca
Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
1191 William J. Federer
The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>
LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>
POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>
VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>
PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATION
so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.
1583 Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet
Anger
You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.
3744 Gina Greenlee
Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.
2544 Thea Harris
Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.
1404 Ram Mohan
Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else's hands.
2988 Stephen Lovegrove
Here’s what I believe. We have control over ourselves at every single moment. We don’t control the world. We don’t control other people (or at least, we shouldn’t.) But we are in control of our experience at all times.
1037 Toni Sorenson
Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident, and faithful, God is in control.
1673 Michael Bassey Johnson
Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.
2875 Anthony Biglan
The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women were smoking (CDC 2011). These numbers represent one of the twentieth century’s most important public health achievements.
3672 Louis De Broglie
Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.
3478 James A. Murphy
Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them for what they have taught you. You also have to take the scars, the lessons of your past and not let them control your future….
2245 Jim George
God is in control of all events and is able to protect and provide for you His child.
3247 Jim George
God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.
4728 Ron Barrow
Believe in yourself, refuse to waiver! Once you control your mind, you control your DESTINY here on earth.
1963 Robert A. Glover
Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?
3093 Unarine Ramaru
Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt.
4236 Wilkie Collins
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
3784 Diana Gabaldon
...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.
4119 Ashly Lorenzana
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
2513 Olivia Fuller
You’re one of those kinds of women - those kinds of people I should say - as am I.”
“And what kind of woman is that?” Mary was very curious and excited now.
“A woman who is not satisfied doing only what society says should satisfy her.
3161 Veronica Roth
I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
4410 Craig Ferguson
The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.
1346 A.J. Darkholme
Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.
2647 Pete Wentz
Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.
2317 Rachel Hartman
This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.
3058 Enock Maregesi
Mtu aliyepoteza kila kitu katika maisha yake ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.
1460 Enock Maregesi
Mtu aliyepoteza kazi na mke na watoto wake kuuwawa kwa mfano, watu wanapaswa kuwa makini na yeye, ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.
4774 Michael Bassey Johnson
When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces.
4060 Tony Benn
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.
2115 Chris Galford
The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar - another means to control.
3638 Naomi Wolf
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
3540 John Fowles
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
4898 Bryant McGill
Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.
3677 Mary E. DeMuth
When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.
4471 Milan Kundera
She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than the sight of a woman violated by her own body!
1079 Geoffrey Wood
Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation.
2556 Alisa Hope Wagner
It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.
2572 Rebecca Coleman
She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.
1312 Chelsea M. Cameron
Sex is one of those things that's complete loss of control. You give yourself up, in your most vulnerable state, to another person, and they give themselves to you.
1355 Debra L. Kaplan
When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations.
2427 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.
4524 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids.
4847 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.
4530 Dianna Hardy
She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.
4447 Dianna Hardy
And then there was Lydia.
Lydia who had hurtled into his life – into their lives – with hair like fire, eyes like amethysts and a fuck-me scent so palpable that he’d betrayed the only woman he’d ever loved.
4584 Cora Carmack
But sex...that was the opposite of control. There were emotions, and attraction, and that pesky other person that just had to be involved. Not my idea of fun.
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