Quotes About Control

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

The plant exercises no control, no choice in the affair of its own growth. We, though, are like a plant that can choose whether or not to expose itself to the light.

government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits.

Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decided in little smoky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life, fix what he believed to be his individuality.

We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure—wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!

to whom we should be grateful for explaining to us what the ruling classes of the country really want.

that both the control of credit and the power to issue money be unqualifiedly taken away from the private banks; that the soldiers not only receive the bonus they with their blood and anguish so richly earned in '17 and '18, but that the amount agreed upon be now doubled; that all swollen incomes be severely limited and inheritances cut to such small sums as may support the heirs only in youth and in old age;

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism

Emily and Harry McKee made Sam blush by the cheery openness with which they informed him that they intended to have only three children, but to have those with celerity and to have them perfect. (They apparently possessed more control of Providence than was understood by such an innocent as Sam.)

Prohibition had turned drinking from an agreeable, not very important accompaniment to gossip into a craze.

Women have seldom have been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart.

EMONE Su, lascia l'ira, cambia mente.»

CORO Molte potenze sono tremende ma nessuna lo è più dell'uomo.»

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

Power proves the man.

If you laugh, the ego cannot control you.

following your spirit is not about staying in control and avoiding pain in life. It's about surrendering control and meeting life head-on.

If your barking dog is trying to control things, recognize it as a failed attempt to make your life better, then take a deep breath or two, squeeze your buttocks really hard for five seconds, and relax your entire body with a loud, audible, "Ahhhh.

But we each do have to let go of what isn't working for us; face our deepest fears; ask for help; and be messy, vulnerable, and willing to give up being in control.

Do not adjust the controls on your television set. The creeped-out feeling you are experiencing is all in your mind.

Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.

Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.

You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!