Quotes about Control
The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.
— Jack Kerouac
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
— George Bernard Shaw
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
— Dennis Prager
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
— Henri Nouwen
I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.
— Joyce Meyer
Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.
— Tony Evans
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
— Margaret Atwood
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them
— Paulo Coelho
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
— Dale Carnegie
I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.
— Joyce Meyer
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
— Frank Herbert
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
— Thomas a Kempis