Excessive Control Quotes

#1. Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.

Terri E Apter

#2. A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Larry Wall

#3. There was a time when I knew what it was like
To live without you, to share your pain
But time moved on, and you came back
Loving me like you'd never left

Monica Alexander

#4. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. He wielded verbal italics as if they were capable of actual bodily harm.

Gail Carriger

#6. The black wolf's curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.

Pet Torres

#7. Give a low man one ounce of power and he'll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head.

Lisa See

#8. Mind share before market share.

Beth Comstock

#9. Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

Theodore Dalrymple

#10. I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

James Cromwell

#11. They hadnt enjoyed each others company in years. Talking led to screaming and both were sick of the fights.

Barbara Becker Holstein

#12. To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.

John Holdren

#13. We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.

Martin Schulz