#Control Quotes

“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.”

“Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,Subjected tribute to commanding love,Against whose fury and unmatched forceThe aweless lion could not wage the fightNor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.”

“If it be you that stirs these daughters' heartsAgainst their father, fool me not so muchTo bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,And let not women's weapons, water drops,Stain my man's cheeks.”

“You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.”

“The let-alone lies not in your good will.”

“Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.”

“Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!”

“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”

“A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!”

“Let us leave hurry to slaves.”

“Let every man be master of his time.”

“Old Time the clock-setter.”

“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”

“Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.”

“I will be master of what is mine own:She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,My household stuff, my field, my barn,My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.”

“The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.”

“She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.”

“Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.”

“And nature must obey necessity.”

“It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.”

“Nature hates calculators.”

“A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.”

“A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.”

“This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.”

“If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”

“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.”

“A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”

“For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”

“At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”

“Love is your master, for he masters you;And he that is so yoked by a foolMethinks should not be chronicled for wise.”

“All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.”

“Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger”

“People seem sheathed in their tough organization.”

“If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.”

“Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!”

“I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.”

“Science should be on tap, not on top.”

“A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.”

“The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.”

“The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

“If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”

“Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”

“I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.”