Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can...

Sooner or later we’ve all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we’re doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated...

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

YOUR devotion to God is best expressed by achieving the control of the senses. For the senses rush towards the temporary and the tawdry; and they foul the heart.

The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men...

We got off to a good start. They played very well in the second, and then after we took control in the third and things got a little bit out of hand.

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I’m also a control person. I don’t go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to...

I’ve signed with major labels, and I haven’t had any control over the money.

Banul este, de fapt, simbolul nevoii de control a omului, al fricilor sale. În lipsa acestor frici, izvor te din instinctul de supraviețuire, banii nu ar fi existat.

Tonight we just didn’t show up to play. We let them control the tempo and in effect the entire game. We’re going to work on things and try to get it back together.

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our...

[ ‘ ON THE ATTACK: John Kerry] launched a broad attack … shifting views on gun control, Social Security, and Medicare policy, as well as campaign finance reform.

She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling...

The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive...

But he is such an under-control, mature kid. He’s just unflappable. What he went through last year and with the team just decimated around him, he’s just a very poised young man. If it was...

When I lose control, I lose my cool and I pass the point of no RTN.

We will continue to tighten land sales and bank lending to strictly control the number of new projects and curb the excessive growth in fixed-asset investment to prevent a return to overheated investment. The pressure...

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I’m very honest.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

I’m simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don’t think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don’t have...

We do care about control and privacy. It’s one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the...

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won’t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and...

…otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by...

We shall take the necessary steps to upgrade our control and financial reporting infrastructure to meet our regulatory and reporting commitments.

To me that’s what art is about – when you don’t really have any control over your desires to do it.

You are the creator of your own perceived reality. Don’t be a creation of circumstances. Always take full control of your destiny.

Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence.*In fact, many parts never take complete control of a person, but are only experienced internally. *Frequent...

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control – that I wasn’t a puppet.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by...

The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

Cuando sucede algo emocionalmente doloroso y nos decimos que la culpa es nuestra, en realidad estamos diciendo que tenemos control sobre ello: si nosotros cambiamos, el dolor desaparecerá.

It’s funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convinces ourselves that we’re in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes… Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

We don’t want to define our policies in relation to the club’s music, dress code or face control. As soon as a person defines a certain thing then he or she loses his or her...

To ease the pain, erase the anger.

Western “freedom” is a sophisticated form of control.

Control is violence; cooperation is friendship.

With a win this weekend, we can help to control our own destiny, and not put our fate into the hands of others.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.