Quotes About Control

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

Secret Services are everywhere. They are part of out daily life. We just don't really care. We are not concerned at all.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Writing becomes a form of protest against the incontestable ravages of time. The poet takes revenge on mortality, defeating cruelty and saving what she can by thinking the unthinkable and presiding over her own creation. The joy of writing stands against the bitter knowledge of just how much of the world cannot be controlled outside the work of art. This is the art of poetry trying to kill time. "Probably

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

Religion, too, he warned, especially when "kindled into enthusiasm," is a "force like that of other passions" and "may become a motive to oppression.

In politics, you either eat the baby or you are the baby.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

you cannot operate on the sea during war unless you have command of the sea, the air above it, and the depths beneath it.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.

Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda.