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Quotes About Control

Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. Take your orders from Miss Taverner, Henry, said the Earl, getting up beside his ward. Me Lord, you are never going to let a female drive us? said Henry almost tearfully. What about my pride? Swallow it, Henry, replied the Earl amicably.
~ Georgette Heyer
I should like to strangle the abominable creature!' 'Unfortunately, the laws of this lands preclude your pursuing that admirable course.
~ Georgette Heyer
He lived in Half-Moon Street. His house was ruled by his cook, the wife of Moggat, his valet-footman. She also ruled the hapless Moggat. Moggat retaliated by ruling his jovial master as far as he was able, so one might really say Mrs. Moggat ruled them all. As Tom was quite unaware of this fact, it troubled him not a whit.
~ Georgette Heyer
His lordship detested independently-minded subordinates. It was not the business of his officers to think for themselves.
~ Georgette Heyer
naturally stern and autocratic temper, thus unchecked, should have turned him into a domestic tyrant.
~ Georgette Heyer
All she wanted was to be treated to a display of ruthless and possessive manhood.
~ Georgette Heyer
I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!
~ Georgette Heyer
Similarly, grace seeks us but will not control us. Saint Augustine once said that God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. If our hands are full, they are full of the things to which we are addicted. And not only our hands, but also our hearts, minds, and attention are clogged with addiction. Our addictions fill up the spaces within us, spaces where grace might flow.
~ Gerald G. May
the dark night of the soul is an ongoing transition from compulsively trying to control one's life toward a trusting freedom and openness to God and the real situations of life.
~ Gerald G. May
How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Security is the denial of life
~ Germaine Greer
Power can be safely exercised only in the service of that which is ostensibly good. Power is like gasoline. Spread aimlessly over the landscape, it can result in an inferno, causing untold harm. Correctly contained, it can cook supper or transport us to Boston.
~ Gerry Spence
Immigrants have and will continue to have an important role in Missouri and the United States. However, we must work together to help control the amount of illegal activity that passes through this country while giving legal immigrants a chance to succeed in this country.
~ Mike Parson
I have played as a goalkeeper since I was six but I always worked on my ball skills, playing with my foot, knowing how to control the ball, how to pass. But the main thing is to save goals.
~ Claudio Bravo
I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'
~ Peyton Manning
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
~ Milan Kundera
Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control.
~ Owen Jones
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
~ Said Musa
In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.
~ Samora Machel
There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
~ Federica Montseny
The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.
~ Matteo Salvini
Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
~ Lord Salisbury
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
~ Theresa May
The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.
~ Elise Stefanik