Quotes about Control
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.
- Pete Holmes
The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.
- Mike Huckabee
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
- St. Basil
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.
- Jay-Z
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
- Steve Jobs
We make our plans, but God directs our steps.
- Rachel Hauck
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
- Ralph Abernathy
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man own land, the land owns him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
- Ravi Zacharias