Quotes About Control

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don't trust Him to manage our lives!

Trust is good, but control is better.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

We must trust God with what we can't control.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

Trust is fine, but control is better.