2,640 Quotes About Control

It might interest you to know," Tully says, "that there's a reason people build miniatures. Doesn't matter if it's guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It's about control. It's about reinventing reality." [...] "Some people get a lot of satisfaction in creating a little world they can escape to. In making things turn out the way they want, at least in their dreams.

What is left for him? He will after all form an alliance with the doctors, cooperate with the machines, with that Oncor and Mevatron, he will hand over his body to others, share its functions with others, entirely rationally, entirely in the spirit of Western civilization which treasures control.

We wanted her to see that the shadows that scared her could be beautiful and powerful when we learn how to take control of them,” Edaline added.Taking control.It sounded so simple.And so impossible.

I am destroying myself so other people can’t," she said, "and it’s the worst kind of control but it’s the only form I know.

She's burning and out of control and everything I love about fire.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics may be different but the desire for control is the same.

Sometimes, when you're feeling too much pain, and it's unmanageable, you let anger take over .. Not that it's the best way out, but it's kind of easier to control ..

As you act with more control, compassion, and love, the lives of those around you improve. When you let yourself find happiness, your friends, family, and acquaintances will begin to find their happiness too.