Quotes About Controlling Someone

#1. Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you.

Neil Strauss

#2. Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.

Scott Westerfeld

#3. Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

Karl Pilkington

#4. A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Melody Beattie

#5. Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

Dorothy Denning

#6. China's critics rightly condemn the government for controlling public opinion in all sorts of ways, from imprisoning dissidents to censoring internet discussions. Yet the regime's obsession with control paradoxically means it pays close attention to public opinion.

Anonymous

#7. With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

Debasish Mridha

#8. but everyone knew there was no controlling Eli Barreto. The idiot had been born with hell in his veins.

Mariana Zapata

#9. Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever.

Shirley Bourget

#10. It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

Grimes

#11. Love is a controlling power, when it takes over; your senses, your life, and your soul are taken over.

Alloy Francis

#12. Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That's why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.

Paul David Tripp

#16. Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

Oswald Mosley

#17. I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

Dave Chappelle

#18. I am lost! Someone has taken over my mind and is controlling it! Someone is in command of all my actions, movements, and thoughts. I am nothing inside, merely a spectator enslaved and terrified by everything I do.

Guy De Maupassant

#19. History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

James Madison

#20. You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#21. Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.

Arthur L. Herman

#22. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Rob Bell

#23. I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

John Carney

#24. When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

A. Nicholas Groth

#25. It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.

Sharon Salzberg

#26. The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. If someone yells at me, they are not expressing love. They may be threatening me. They may be expressing great frustration with me. They may simply be trying to control my behavior. However, they are not communicating love.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#28. I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

Christina Aguilera

#29. Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it.

Ruth Ahmed

#30. I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.

Gary Oldman

#31. Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.

Veronica Roth

#32. People pay attention when they see that God actually changes persons and sets them free. When a new Christian stands up and tells how God has revolutionized his or her life, no one dozes off. When someone is healed or released from a life-controlling bondage, everyone takes notice.

Jim Cymbala

#33. The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. But there's no doubting he's an extreme controller. What happens when a controller comes up against someone who's out of control? The combination could be explosive.

J.P. Delaney

#34. I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

Caroline Knapp

#35. If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

Wendell Willkie

#36. I love you, too, James, but that doesn't give you a free pass." "No, it doesn't. Being your Dom does that, Love. I've compromised far more for you than I've ever done for anyone or anything in my life. Controlling you sexually is something I won't be bending on ...

R.K. Lilley

#37. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#38. I should probably warn you, my love isn't roses and champagne. I'm obsessive, jealous, and controlling, but I'm faithful and I'll be here when you need someone.

Suzanne Steele

#39. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

Mark Shields

#40. You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Paul Auster

#41. A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter

#42. A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

Oliver Ellsworth

#43. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.

Daryl Wein

#44. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Tommy Franks

#45. The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

Bashar Al-Assad

#46. I was a weekend drinker ... I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday ... thought I was controlling it ... but I don't drink any more.

Bill Hicks

#47. Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#48. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#49. Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

Tariq Ramadan

#50. Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line. It's horrible to be laughed at against your will. Either you suppress unwelcome laughter or you start controlling it.

Keith Johnstone

#51. The purpose of the word "slut" is: controlling women through shame and humiliation. Women's bodies are always the ones that are being vied over for control - whether it's rape, reproductive rights, or violence against women, it's our bodies that are the battleground, not men's.

Jessica Valenti

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely.

Octavia E. Butler

#55. I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Luis Fortuno

#56. Love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Tracie Peterson

#57. My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

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

Rod Steiger

#59. The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Gloria Steinem

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

T.F. Hodge

#61. If you take the meaning out of the world, all that's left is controlling each other.

L.T. Vargus

#62. Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Ian McEwan

#63. If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Timothy Keller

#64. I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Justina Chen