Quotes about Control
The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.
- Kris Vallotton
when the evil spirit lost the ability to scare me, it no longer had power over me.
- Kris Vallotton
Even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.
- Carolyn Custis James
Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power
- George Washington
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.
- George Washington
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
- George Washington
If a man own land, the land owns him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
- GK Chesterton
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
- Thomas a Kempis
Take heed lest passion sway thy judgment to do aught, which else free will would not admit.
- John Milton
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
- Joseph Addison