Quotes About Control

I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.

Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

He's sort of a Svengali... It means someone who's manipulative. More than that: somebody who makes you think that you need him in order to accomplish anything.

Don't let anger consume you if you're longing for true love.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

The public at large thinks that government is too big.

Sl?biciunea noastr?, a modernilor, e c? în loc s? gândim, gândurile ne gândesc pe noi. Noi st?m molâi, femei adipoase, lubrice, nesatisf?cute, È™i gândurile ne violenteaz?, ne schingiuiesc, ne vând altora, iar noi nu protest?m, ci le l?s?m s? ne st?pâneasc?, s? ne îndrepte paÈ™ii, s? ne prostitueze oric?rui adev?r care le satisface pe ele, nu pe noi.

But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and, without violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet;—

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.

Ona protests, quietly, that she doesn't believe that at all. She doesn't believe in authority, period, because authority makes people cruel. Salome interrupts: The people with authority or the people without?

En aquest seu afany de poder, en necessitaven d'altres sobre qui exercir aquest poder, i aquests altres som nosaltres.

We don't always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

because in their quest for power, they needed to have those they'd have power over, and those people are us. And they have taught this lesson of power to the boys and men of Molotschna, and the boys and men of Molotschna have been excellent students in that regard.

L'autoritat fa que les persones siguin cruels.

O, lijepe moje slatke lutke! Svi smo mi igra?ke u bazaru civilizacije! Svira?i, dame, no?ni desperateri, paralitici, svi se mi mi?emo u izlogu civilizacije po pravilu. Navinuli su nas, igraju se nama, a onda nas bacaju u sme?e!

The length of your days does not belong to you.

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.

I worked because I could control it.

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

God -starts- things,' he [the Lord] said. 'Man stops them.

I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate.

Instead, I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died...