Quotes About Control

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

See how I stopped mid-sentence? I can do it too. When I don't necessarily want to reveal the exact thought I'm having.

I'm going to make my life work for me. I'm not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It's my life, which means I get to choose how it goes. Even if that means wrestling it to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying: Take that, life!

Mum's like one of those dressage riders on TV. She changes her voice an iota and we all obey her instantly, like trained Olympic horses.

I´m going to make my life work for me. I´m not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It´s my life, wich means wrestling i to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying, Take that, life!

For him life has to go the certain way, otherwise he's not interested.

You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island-- you and you alone.

What you cannot enforce, do not command!

No? Believe me, the stiffest stubborn wills fall the hardest; the toughest iron tempered strong in the white-hot fire, you'll see it crack and shatter first of all. And I've known spirited horses you can break with a light bite—proud, rebellious horses. There's no room for pride, not in a slave, not with the lord and master standing by.

CREON: Am I to rule for others, or myself? HAEMON: A State for one man is no State at all. CREON: The State is his who rules it, so 'tis held.

tis greater far To rule a people than a wilderness.

Still the king, the master of all things? No more: here your power ends.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

True, it is not your fate to fall at my hands. Apollo is quite enough

No one with any sense of self-control.

Look at us, passengers in the grip of fear, watching the pilot of the vessel go to pieces.

What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives.

Creon: My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city! Haimon: It is no city if it takes orders from one voice. Creon: The State is the King! Haimon: Yes, if the State is a desert.

Tis hard for power to observe each pious rule.

Look through all humanity: you'll never find a man on earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

This time let me be. Let me rage.