Control Quotes

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

David Mamet

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Mel Gibson

I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.

Leo Tolstoy

You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.

William Shakespeare

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible. And that's the lesson I'm learning. If someone's going to impress me, whether it be a Maharishi or a Yoko, then there comes a point where the emperor has no clothes 'cause I'm naive, but I'm not stupid. For all you folks out there who think I'm having the wool pulled over my eyes, well, that's an insult to me. But if you think you know me, or you have some part of me because of the music, and then you think I'm being controlled like a dog on a leash because I do things with her, then screw you, brother or sister, you don't know what's happening. I'm not here for you, I'm here for me and her, and now the baby.

John Lennon

The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Paul G. Thomas

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Robert Lindner

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

A functioning police state needs no police.

William S. Burroughs

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

Robert Burns

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Louisa May Alcott

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

Josh Billings

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Walt Whitman