Quotes About Control

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

Sólo cuando no esperamos nada ni albergamos ningún sueño podemos mantener el control de nuestra vida. Los sueños a menudo implican a los demás y es imposible tener la certeza de que los demás no nos defraudarán, ni nos harán daño.

Besides, how could one apologize for kissing a woman twice? Once might be explained away as an impulsive accident. Twice suggested definite intent or a serious lack of control. His

The only thing over which we have any control whatsoever is the very next decision we make.

Pero el pasado no se puede cambiar. Solo podemos controlar un poco el futuro.

It would be such bliss just to go to him and let him take charge of her life. And he would do so, she knew.

As I see it, there is room for only one master in my home. It may be unreasonable of me, my dear fellow, but I have always insisted that that master be me.

When you believe in yourself, Anna, when you are in command of yourself, when nothing derogatory anyone says of you or to you has the power to arouse your anger or any desire to retaliate, people seem to sense it and respect you.

They were all dependent upon him—and he did not like her.

She felt horribly out of control of the conversation.

But she would not allow her thoughts to show on her face. She kept her lips tightly pressed together and her expression impassive.

His hand shot up to grasp her wrist as her hand flashed toward his face. 'No, not this time,' he said, eyes narrowing. 'That last time you had the advantage of surprise, my love, but I learn by experience. Hit me again, Elizabeth, and I may reply in kind. You would not escape with a kiss this time.' He released her wrist.

Victims wallow. They fret over what they cannot control. And I'm no victim.

privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.