Controlling Man Quotes

#1. A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E.L. James

#2. When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that - excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?

Lundy Bancroft

#3. He wouldn't let her work. You know, he was controlling. Some men are like that.' He gives me a quick sideways smily. 'Really? A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?' I don't think I can squeeze any more sarcasm into my response.

E.L. James

#4. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Wendell Phillips

#5. All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

Charles Bukowski

#6. A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Rudolph Valentino

#7. To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

Lee De Forest

#8. Empowered Women 101: A man doesn't have to put down other women to prove his love for you. In fact, why would you teach him to be less than Christlike, in order to show his devotion? Real women don't need the people in their life to lower others, in order to raise them up.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#10. Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#11. Temperance, I replied, is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires; this is curiously enough implied in the saying of 'a man being his own master;' and other traces of the same notion may be found in language. No

Plato

#12. I have had another thought on such fates that denies neither gods nor man. Perhaps, instead of controlling every step, the gods have started a hundred or a thousand Cazarils and Umegats down this road, and only those arrive who choose to.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. Yes, dear Father. But has it ever occurred to you that by controlling [your feelings] you destroy them? How many times can we say sorry before we don't feel sorry anymore?

John Le Carre

#14. When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

B.F. Skinner

#15. Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

Rene Dubos

#16. I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself ... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

Cub Swanson

#17. Lesson Number One in controlling a man: find his weakness. Every man had one.

Rachel Firasek

#18. was something truly sexy about a man astride a huge beast, controlling it with a squeeze of his tightly wrapped thighs.

Raquel Lyon

#19. The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They're laughing. Talking shit. Enjoying the fact that they've tried to play with my life. Yelling. Loud shouts. It's near me, but the chaos controlling me makes it incoherent.

Katie McGarry

#20. The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#21. Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

Benito Mussolini

#22. The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.

Erich Fromm

#23. The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

Henry Ford

#24. FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#26. A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

T.F. Hodge

#27. Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important
currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.

Rod Steiger

#28. I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#29. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

Mark Hopkins