#control

If you want to control other people, first control yourself. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#first #other #people #want #you

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#control #describing #every #function #language

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. ↗

— Freda Adler

#chivalry #control #dispenses #equal #invoke

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#enough #everything #fast #going #just

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#control-freaks #control-issues #cynic #cynical #cynical-humor

Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life. ↗

— José N. Harris

#drama #excuses #life #life-and-living #life

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear. ↗

— George Eliot

#speech #life

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#control #existence #life

Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense of what is unknown with a fantasy that is mad. Better, I thought, that the events of these past three days should remain incomprehensible to me forever than to posit, as I had just been doing, a conspiracy of foreign intelligence agents who are determined to control my mind. We've all heard that one before. ↗

— Philip Roth

#control-my-mind #indecipherable #intelligence

—Necesito sentir que tengo el control. —Ah, ahora me has dado un desafío. — Él dio un paso más cerca. — Para hacerte perder el control. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#heather-jean-luc #love