Quotes of: Controlling Keyword

Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me." "It's more complicated than that," I said automatically. "It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've always controlled every detail of your life. When you co...

The Indigo Spell

Air Traffic Controller: TWA 517 do you want to report a UFO, over? TWA 517 do you want to report a UFO, over? TWAPilot: [over radio] Negative, we don't want to report. Air Traffic Controller: Air East 31, do you wish to report a UFO, over? AirEast Pi...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

Creation: Life and How to Make It

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Denial

It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.

Eve of Awakening

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

High Five

Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Irving Berlin

It's time for you to take control of your Life and for you to accept that it is you who's in control.

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Operation Shylock: A Confession

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

Lockdown

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

The Passion of Alice

HE ISN’T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE’S ANGRY BECAUSE HE’S ABUSIVE.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

Words of Radiance

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.

When the Sleeper Wakes

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Joe Wurzelbacher

In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.

Siri Hustvedt

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Tim Ferriss