Quotes about Control

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

So he bought her a car, only he refuse to show her how to drive it.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.

Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.