Quotes About Control

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

We are all masters of our own destinies.

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.