Control Quotes

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou ...

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's bragga...

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can n...

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any...

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and c...

Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of ...

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transfor...

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

You must have discipline to have fun.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of se...

Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated...

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, ...

Without discipline there's no life at all.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brou...

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? O...

You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I...

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over...

A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of gove...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our har...

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t...

When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay u...

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over...

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...

...otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, ta...

Waiting is one of the great arts.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values a...

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functi...

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Superior people never make long visits.

As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of cours...

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have...

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and n...

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your di...

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find i...

There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze,...

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his lif...

Not being able to govern events I govern myself.

What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for orde...

She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belong...

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control thing...

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the ...

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps...

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And...

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more ...

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to...

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as h...

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissi...

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable op...

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feel...

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can ch...

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fil...

Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always som...

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only sh...

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in contr...

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds i...

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People...

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People...

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People...

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People...

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He ask...

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water ...

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, acc...

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the ...

I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

He only wanted to use me for something. Everyone wanted to use you for some purpose.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food res...

There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, i...

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way ...

For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power by nature, ...

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of...

We've all got the power to kill in our hands, but most of us are afraid to use it. Those who aren't,...

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of ...

You can't make me do nothing but die!

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not vio...

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball con...

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then ...

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to co...