Control Quotes

There comes a moment in each of our lives when the control that keeps us sane slips through our fingers. Most of us aim to seize it back. The best way to fight chaos is with chaos.

~ Emily Thorne

Chaos... by its very definition cannot be controlled. Once introduced, all order and intention is rendered useless. The outcome of chaos can never be predicted. The only certainty it brings... is the devastation it leaves in its wake.

~ Emily Thorne

Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once we have been engulfed by it. Only by the help of others are we able to detect the inner spirit that places wealth about God. And we must come to fear the idolatrous state of covetousness because the moment things have priority, radical obedience becomes impossible.

~ Richard J. Foster

All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Western freedom is a sophisticated form of control.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

~ Karl Pilkington

Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.

~ Gyalwa Dokhampa

to Vaneigem and the Situationists who by shrewd use of collage and juxtaposition exposed both the poverty and richness of slogans, and the thinly veiled hypocrisy of a spectacular society which by not respecting words abuses people, and by insulting the intelligence creates a state of political cretinisation in which the many and various forms of authoritarian control dominate.

~ Alexis Lykiard

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

~ Bryant Mcgill

His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control.

~ Richard Price

...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.

~ Diana Gabaldon

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are born with the need for a leader, someone to control the conflict between each individual's need. An alpha in the house, an alpha at work, an alpha in the church and in the White House.

~ Colin Mcadam

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

~ Pete Wentz

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Have you ever thought that if one thing hadn't happened, a whole set of things never would have either? Like dominoes in time, a single event kicked off an unstoppable series of changes that gained momentum and spun out of control, and nothing was ever the same again. Don't ever doubt that a mere second can change your life forever.

~ Kimberly K. Jones

Progress is learning to control your world.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I guess we all feel we're in control and we are, until we're not. The problem is that seldom can we tell when it is that we step over the precipice of no return - and then for most of us it is to late.

~ Braam Malherbe

To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us.

~ David W. Earle

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

When you control their water, you control the people.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

Exactly when will you give up?When things will seem out of your hands ?When situations will seem out of your control?Will you try to control them? Or will you let go?Will you give up then? Or will you keep holding on?Don't tell me that I gave up, I didn't.Because I didn't let go, I just let it be.

~ Sanhita Baruah

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

~ Tony Benn

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize amusement. The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the Business men who are the real power in the State. Men who betray their country as obvious routine.The history of the past thirty years is eloquent enough, one would think. What these sodden imbeciles never realize is that a living organism must adapt itself intelligently to its environment, or go under at the first serious change of circumstance.

~ Aleister Crowley

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.

~ Dave Champion

Oh, please stop,” I said, moving to sit down beside her on the bed. “No. Nothing like that. It’s… it’s letting someone that close to me. Physically and emotionally. Randy and I got close a few times, but… I chickened out. I’m afraid of letting someone have that kind of power over me. Not being in control is what scares me.

~ Kody Keplinger

The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive support of the State. It has the ear of rulers and the control of education. Every generation is suborned in its favor. Those who dissent from it are losers, those who oppose it are ostracised; while in the past, for century after century, it has replied to criticism with imprisonment, and to scepticism with the dungeon and the stake. By such means it has induced a general tendency to allow its pretensions without inquiry and its beneficence without proof.

~ Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

~ Toni Sorenson

It felt good to be the one holding the blade, the role reversal gave him a much desired feeling of control.

~ S.r. Ford

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory.

~ Steve Maraboli

So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?

~ Eveth N Colley

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

~ Mary E. Demuth

Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence.*In fact, many parts never take complete control of a person, but are only experienced internally. *Frequent switching may be a sign of severe stress and inner conflict in most individuals.

~ Suzette Boon

Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.''Don't think I care for that.

~ Mindy Mcginnis

I can't bear the thought of living an entire lifetime on this planet and not getting to do all the things I dream of doing, simply because they aren't allowed. I don't think it will ever be enough, this version of freedom, until it is all-inclusive. I don't think I can be happy unless I'm truly independent.

~ Deborah Feldman