2,640 Quotes About Control

He wondered why the stewardesses were looking at him funny by mid-flight, and realized he'd been responding to their rote kindness with the intensity of someone who has never experienced courtesy, or never expects to experience it again.

You don't try to control the people you love. You want then to be free.

You don't try to control the people you love. You want them to be free.

Tyrants want to run your life; your spirit wants you to be free.

It is not love to dictate love-to tell others how they should love.

The biggest mistake of a military man is to say that he is 'safe', as much as the biggest mistake of a police insider is to say that he is 'in control'. Both aren’t, never. Usually they say something like: 'it's only this time' or, 'I've done this before, nothing will happen to me'. Those sentences mean failure. Even Schwarzenegger found himself, later in his life, dealing with this brief thought. Seen a military man in your neighborhood? Tell him: write.

Creating a script is like daydreaming, we will always have control of our actions.

If it is to have control of someone, let it be of yourself.

The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.