Quotes
Quotes about Control
Circumstances over which I have no control.
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control
Stops with the shore.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,--
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
The novel form calls for a rigidity of control of the linguistic medium which forbids the freer art of the poet. Language must be transparent, not opaque.
Whatever the music critics say, I orchestrate well. I am in control of the tonal palette, or palate.
Though we regard a novelist as a writer whose tade is the production of novels - in the plural - we must still take seriously those authors who have been limited, either by circumstances beyond their control, of which death is the least compromising, or by deliberate self-denial, to the production of a single novel
Nothing stayed still. A man changed his lodging, his place of work, his mistress; between man and wife love could die, a man's art or skill grew or languished or merely changed, and all beyond his control
The foul wrong then lay beyond a man's own purposing; there was somewhere, outside time's very beginning, an infinite well of putridity from which body and mind alike were driven, by some force unseen and uncontrollable, to drink
You are a young man and still have your way to make so you won't resent a last bit of advice from an old codger like myself. Which is, to keep self-control. With self-control and keeping all personal feeling out of things allied to your book-learning, that way you should go far
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
