Quotes About Control

Losing my temper will not help,' he said and gave the door a vicious kick.

Losing my temper will not help, he said and gave the door a vicious kick.

Nothing is hard to do unless you get upset or excited about it.

To make a long story short, you know quite well that when a woman puts her foot down, she wins.

Never let a husband off the leash. Not even a carpenter knows where the chips will fly.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

Like all boses—and on set, I'm the boss—I'm the boss only up to a point.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I'll have power. No one will be able to do this to me again.

she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.

Usted es como yo —había dicho Sam Roffe—. Nosotros queremos ser dueños del mundo. Yo le enseñaré cómo lograrlo. —Y lo hizo.

His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

but the state of sleep, we found, is not characterized by the disintegration of psychical interconnections, but by the focus on the wish to sleep by the psychical system in control of the day.

I was convinced, I added, that she would be better at once if her father said that he was sacrificing Frau K. to her health. I hoped that he would not be persuaded to do so, because then she would have seen what a strong weapon she had in her hands, and would certainly not shrink from exploiting all the possibilities of illness on every future occasion. However, if her father did not give in to her, I felt sure that she would not abandon her invalid status so easily.

Expressando-o de modo sucinto, existem duas características humanas muito difundidas, responsáveis pelo fato de os regulamentos da civilização só poderem ser mantidos através de certo grau de coerção, a saber, que os homens não são espontaneamente amantes do trabalho e que os argumentos não têm valia alguma contra suas paixões.

en cuanto cierto número de seres vivos se reúne, trátese de un rebaño o de una multitud humana, los elementos individuales se colocan instintivamente bajo la autoridad de un jefe.

La multitud es un dócil rebaño incapaz de vivir sin amo.