Quotes about Control

We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. For we cannot alter our heart; its basis is determined by motives; and our head deals with objective facts, and applies to them rules which are immutable. Any given individual is the union of a particular heart with a particular head.

A man strives to get direct mastery over things either by understanding them or by compulsion. But a woman is always and everywhere driven to indirect mastery, namely through a man; all her direct mastery being limited to him alone.

She taught me that women who want without needing are expensive and sometimes wasteful, but women who need without wanting are dangerous — they suck you in and pretend not to notice.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.