2,640 Quotes About Control

I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.

She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.

Stop trying to control how you feel, and instead take control of what you do.

Manipulation. Domination. Control. These are the three watchwords of violent serial offenders.

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.

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

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.