Quotes About Control

When I asked my shrink if I was a control freak, he finished saying "Absolutely" before I finished saying "freak." I told him that I once worked with a woman who carried a remote control in her purse. Whenever she got worried or angry, she took it out and stroked it like a gerbil. My shrink said that if I keep comparing myself to severe neurotics, I'll think that anything is permissible.

Sandgorse chose his own destiny. Why should he get to choose yours, too?

Power is neither good or evil, it just depends on how you choose to use it.-Rock, cats of the clans

If something is meant to happen, it will," he pointed out calmly. "And no cat's will is strong enough to stop it from happening.

Who died and put you in charge?' Moon Shadow demanded, his tail-tip twitching in annoyance. 'Shaded Moss, actually,' Tall Shadow replied.

Good, whispered the voice in Tigerclaw's mind. These cats must make no decisions on their own, not unless you want them to feel more powerful than you.

Alpha's muzzle curled in disbelief, but he went on watching Fiery intently. "Mad? In what way?" "Insane," Fiery told him. "Like a dog with the water-madness"—at this several Packmembers gasped and growled nervously—"but not that. His jaws foamed and he had fits, but he was in control. Very much in control. He rules his Pack with fear.

Sit on him if you have to.

great power.

what Tigerstar was trying to

The light will return, just like the sun came back, but it will be your light, and yours to control.

Just remember this: power is neither good nor bad, but its user makes it so.

Brambleclaw drew his tail over his paws with a resigned sigh. "Well, there are lots of sheep, which are fluffy white woolly things that look a bit like clouds on legs. They're harmless, but you'll need to watch out for dogs when you see them, because the Twolegs use them to control the sheep.

Birchfall, you asked for that." Brambleclaw paused in digging up his vole. "ShadowClan shouldn't have accused us of trying to cross the border, but you put us in the wrong when you started the fight. Warriors should know how to control themselves." "Sorry," Birchfall mumbled. "So you should be.

Dante said, I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off." That's because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he'll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn't stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

The inanimate, lifeless cloud that resembles carded cotton has of course no knowledge of us, when it comes to our aid, it is not because it takes pity on us. It cannot appear and disappear without receiving orders. Rather it acts in accordance with the orders of a most powerful and compassionate commander.

It is a lonely occupation, being someone who wrestles to control their responses to food, given that modern life is steeped with things to eat, both real and imaginary.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.