No Control Quotes

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.

They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister.

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

If you allow someone to control you, you surrender part of your power to them.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.

Those who fixate on what could have been are bound to miss what already is.

I'm accustomed to toxicity and can’t control myself when I’m near it.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

I have no control over events. I can only be courageously to conquer every challenge.

Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control.

You must endure long enough to be victorious.

All this while I kept thinking where did I go wrong, all this while he wasn't mine to lose.

Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination!

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires.

Through all life changes, God is in control.

Set your mind free from any negative thoughts.

Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.Be your own best friend, and not your enemy.

If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind

We can only recreate ourselves with renewal of our mind.

If you have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts.

Think, speak and act positively.

You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance.

We can’t control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to things we can’t control.

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.

Joy, I think, is the main fruit of the Spirit missing among Christians, and peace and self-control are the main fruits or qualities that seem to be missing among those who are not Christian.

As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity.

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.