2,640 Quotes About Control

We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

Don't be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny.

I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change — most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink — are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become.

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress.

Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistible you wanted to be consumed.

The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...