Control Quotes

“Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.”

You are only as SANE as the INSANE person who is controlling you.

We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

"If everything's under control, you're going too slow."

“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership.”

There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set—quite appropriately—and said, “I’m sorry, Jim. When you’re directing, you don’t need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do.” And, you know, and I WOULD be there—behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn’t even aware of.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

If you want to succeed you got to be OK to lose control.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it’s an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that’s going to be the solution to all the pressure.

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

If God made man they say
Sam Colt made him equal