2,640 Quotes About Control

When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.

La humanidad ha perdido todo control sobre su futuro-No lo ha tenido jamás, en realidad.Estuvo siempre a merced de unas fuerzas económicas y sociológicas que no entendía, de los caprichos del clima y de los azares de la guerra.

For a long while they are silent, thinking about abstract things like control and what it means to love an institution that is defined by loss, because a library is such a space and their duty is to encourage the books to leave.

La paura è un'amica pericolosa: devi imparare a controllarla, ad ascoltare quello che ti dice. Se ci riesci ti aiuterà a fare bene il tuo dovere. Se lasci che sia lei a dominarti, ti porterà alla fossa.

Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.

But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled..."Meters per second" will integrate to "meters." The moving vehicle is frozen, in space, to become architecture, and timeless. It was never launched. It never did fall.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]