Quotes about Control
These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.
- Francine Rivers
As for Leota, She had chosen to close her mind to the things she couldn't change and move forward. There were many good things in life to allow things beyond your control to destroy you.
- Francine Rivers
Falling in love meant you lost control of your emotions and your will and your life. It meant you lost yourself.
- Francine Rivers
Man planned, but God prevailed.
- Francine Rivers
Man strives to do things his own way, and yet, it is always Your will that prevails.
- Francine Rivers
You're worrying about things you can't control. Just take things one day at a time.
- Francine Rivers
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
- Frank Herbert
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
- Frank Herbert
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
- Frank Herbert
All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.
- Frank Herbert
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
- Frank Herbert
Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
- Frank Herbert