Control Quotes

Me never believe in marriage that much. Marriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.

The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.

Getting drunk, you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like, I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation.

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I always enjoyed the feeling of being onstage - the magic that comes. When I hit the stage it's like all of a sudden a magic from somewhere just comes and the spirit just hits you and you just lose control of yourself.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present, God has given me no control over the moment following.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

In life, we can't always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional.