Quotes about Control

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

But in the darkness of her room he was reminded that helplessness was often a portal to God, because rarely did the fragile, self-serving human pray for things in his complete control.

If you can't solve a problem, manage it.

Controlling people try to control people, and they do the same with God—but loving anything always means a certain giving up of control. You tend to create a God who is just like you—whereas it was supposed to be the other way around.