Stop Controlling Everything Quotes

That's the thing. The people you're controlling don't have a voice in how you control them. As long as everyone's on the same page, things may be great, but when there's a question, you win. Right?"

"There has to be a way to come to a final decision."

"No, there doesn't. Every time someone starts talking about final anythings in politics, that means the atrocities are warming up. Humanity has done amazing things by just muddling through, arguing and complaining and fighting and negotiating. It's messy and undignified, but it's when we're at our best, because everyone gets to have a voice in it. Even if everyone else is trying to shout it down. Whenever there's just one voice that matters, something terrible comes out of it."

"And yet, I understand from Ms. Fisk that the Transport Union was condemning whole colonies that didn't follow its rule."

"Right?" Holden said. "And so I disobeyed that order and I quit working for them. I was all set to go retire in Sol system. Can you do that?"

"Can I do what?"

"If you are given an immoral order, can you resign and walk away? Because everything I've seen about how you're running this place tells me that isn't an option for you."

Singh crossed his arms. He had the sense that the interrogation was getting away from him.

"The high consul is a very wise, very thoughtful man," he said. "I have perfect faith that - "

"No. Stop. 'Perfect faith' r ~ James S.A. Corey

Corporate money is controlling everything. ~ Ed Schultz

You can't control the weather, but that doesn't stop some people from trying. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it - the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death. But I have come back from the dead. And through me, the Empire will control everything. ~ John Jackson Miller

If you alter your behaviour because you are frightened of how your partner will react, you are being abused. ~ Sandra Horley

To not judge is to be like a peach. We shrink our space by giving up controlling others. Instead, we focus on controlling ourselves. We set others free to be who they are. ~ John Kuypers

If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you. ~ Joyce Meyer

Controlling my environment was still a compelling need for me. I did everything I could to not be surprised by anything...

Looking back, I think that my need to predict how my day was going to unfold was a direct response to the amount of chaos in my childhood. ~ Olga Trujillo

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. ~ Wilson Pickett

Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us. ~ Mitch Albom

Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception. ~ Bryant McGill

If you fear that defending your boundaries is being controlling, don't worry. There is a difference between being controlling and having boundaries. Controlling people is about telling them what to do. Setting boundaries is about saying what you do or do not want to happen to you. ~ Adelyn Birch

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false. ~ Tim Scott

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing ~ John Paul Warren

Doug that is so sweet, but your doing the controlling thing again"
"How is that controlling?"
"For starters, you made your brother pull me over ~ Jennifor Echols

Have compassion. Even though Type A's can be controlling, know they are as tough or tougher with themselves. ~ Melissa Heisler

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. ~ Ronald Graham

Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling. ~ Beverly Engel

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

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed. ~ Traci Lawrence

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me. ~ Suge Knight

Never stop loving,
never stop evolving,
never stop existing,
never give up,
never resist to change
never lie,
never stop telling truth,
never stop trusting,
never stereotype,
never judge,
never cheat,
never be manipulated,
never be enslaved,
never stop learning,
never stop improving,
never stop moving,
never stop kicking,
never stop innovating,
never be shy,
never conceal facts,
never obstruct justice,
never fight for no reason,
never stop craving for knowledge,
never stop keeping your head up,
never stop shooting for stars,
never sell yourself short,
never give promises you can't keep,
never stop complementing,
never stop thanking,
never stop appreciating life,
never stop being grateful,
never be dishonest,
never be a loser,
never stop working hard,
never stop dreaming,
never stop imagining,
never forget your past,
never think in the box,
never be arrogant,
never stop trying, and
never stop... ~ John Taskinsoy

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself? ~ Merle Shain

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic. ~ David Byrne

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything. ~ Joel Stein

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge. ~ Dharma Kumar

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

Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture. ~ Lawrence Blume

He pulled her close. Your being with me makes it stop. It's like the Ming bowls - when I touch them and feel them, everything stops. You are the same. That is why I brought you here, to keep you with me, where you can please make ... everything ... stop. ~ Jennifer Ashley

We can stop everything but there are somethings are can't be stop by anyway and "Imagination" is one of them. ~ Kusum Mnajeshri

Stop.
Stop time.
Stop the world.
Stop everything for the moment he crosses the room and pulls me into his arms and pins me against the wall and I'm spinning and standing and not even breathing but I'm alive so very very alive. ~ Tahereh Mafi

When I went from feeling nothing to everything and couldn't stop screaming because it turned out the everything was blinding pain. ~ Megan Miranda

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around. ~ Will Schwalbe

Stop working, stop doing everything, let's do nothing - let's eat! ~ Ridhwan Saidi

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans. ~ Bill Hicks

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. ~ Bill Maher

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see. ~ Steven Wright

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it. ~ T.D. Jakes

Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible. ~ Melody Beattie

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune. ~ Julion Okram

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story. ~ Susanna Kearsley

We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls. ~ Gloria Steinem

He became the largest individual hog farmer in the North. And, in order not to be victimized by meat packers, he bought controlling interest in an Indianapolis slaughterhouse. In order not to be victimized by steel suppliers, he bought controlling interest in a steel company in Pittsburgh. In order not to be victimized by coal suppliers, he bought controlling interest in several mines. In order not to be victimized by money lenders, he founded a bank. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next. ~ Ryan Holmes

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told! ~ Michelle Pfeiffer

If they cannot control you in the four directions, they will control you inside the four walls ~ 'SON Of GOD' P.S.Jagadeesh Kumar

Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on. ~ Paulo Coelho

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works. ~ Liz Phair

It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out. ~ Gloria Steinem

I've got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith. ~ Deatri King-Bey

Stop it, Misha. Stop being so frightened of everything. But she couldn't stop. She carried fear with her like a little animal, curled in the nook behind her heart, and it whispered to her. You are weak, you are frightened, and you will never dare do anything at all. ~ Stefan Bachmann

There is some pain in your life that, when you experience it, you're shocked to the core that it doesn't kill you. It feels like it should kill you, like your heart should stop beating and your lungs should stop breathing and your eyes should stop seeing. Everything should just . . . stop. With pain that profound and regret that unfathomable, it should be impossible for your body to stay alive. ~ Katy Regnery

I don't think I'll ever stop being grateful to my readers for everything they've done for me. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Mind controlling can be very useful to us," Kae said in a whisper. "Yes, obviously she can do that very well," Ryker whispered back bitterly. "Finnegan, what do you think?" Kaeden asked. He and Ryker both turned to look at me expectantly. On the one hand it did help to have a mind controlling angel, demon person. ~ Yolanda Olson

The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them. ~ Khaleda Zia

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don't (something which contradicts their beliefs) ~ Lukasz Laniecki

Nothing to be feared of. Stop being feared, let yourself explore in everything, let yourself see the true world that is wasted by everything. ~ Mohan Edwards

List one fear that has been controlling your life. Once you decide to confront the fear, begin repeating to yourself, "I can handle it. No matter what happens, I will handle it." Keep repeating this mantra until you take action and stop feeling fear. ~ Robert A. Glover

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful. ~ Charles Dance

Fight with everything you have, everything you are. Everything that is left of you--battle with it. Fight by the moonlight, the starlight, whatever faded hope you can find at any moment--cling to it. Embrace the smallest of lights, and never stop fighting. ~ Sara Wolf

You are everything to me, Finnley, everything. I have loved you since I was fifteen years old and I'm never going to stop. ~ Tara Sivec

If you aren't the one who is controlling your own thoughts, feelings, and emotions then you are one who is being controlled. ~ Clyde Lee Dennis

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. ~ Carre Otis

But everything falls away, try as you might to stop it. And for whatever returns to you, be grateful. ~ Rachel Cusk

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. ~ Bob Parsons

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent. ~ Paula Creamer

Said he had more immediate problems than the fate of the world and he was sure we'd figure it out, considering how controlling and micromanaging Ryodan was about everything he owned - and as he believed he owned the entire world and everything in it, and could play with it all like his personal chess set - the bastard would surely find a way to patch things up to his liking. He ~ Karen Marie Moning

Forgot about carin' about someone so much you would do everything in your power to stop them having' pain."
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"And how fuckin' shitty it feels then there's nothin' you can do to stop it ~ Kristen Ashley

You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good. ~ Clint Eastwood

When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. ~ Chris Pratt

If you stop doing a skill you've done for years for any period of time, there's an adjustment period to get it back. In anything you do. Motor skills won't work as fast, because repetition is everything. ~ Brian O'Driscoll

Everything you think stops you from doing something is an Excuse. Because the only thing in the world that can really stop you is you, yourself. ~ Akash S. Bansal

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation. ~ Ken Poirot

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it. ~ Roseanne Barr

If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.' ~ Timothy Simons

Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change. ~ Emily Bronte

Well-meaning members lose sight of their role as servants and become increasingly focused on controlling the very church they are called to serve. When a serving heart is replaced by a controlling heart, division is bound to ensue. And when selfish division lies unchallenged, areas of ministry and service become turfs to be defended, and brother and sisters in Christ become opponents and obstacles to individual accomplishment. ~ Darrin Patrick

She shakes her head but her lips lift. "Stop." "Stop what?" "Being right." She groans and leans back against the couch in a huff. "I hate that we're all so worked up over it and you say a few words, and now everything makes sense again. ~ Krista Ritchie

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be. ~ Melody Beattie

DOWNED HELICOPTER TRANSPORT STOP KHESANH STOP LT T BAKER MISSING IN ACTION STOP ~ Gary D. Schmidt

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy. ~ Kevin Plank

Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves. ~ Marilyn Johnson

When I stop at a stop sign, I don't think about the distance I've crossed. I just wish I never had to stop. ~ Tablo

One of the most common corruptions of childrearing remains the controlling caregiver's propensity to shape the child into an object aligned with the caregiver's own unprocessed trauma. Controlling caregivers have a variety of methods at their disposal to accomplish this, including such "civilized" approaches as manipulating, conditionally loving, withdrawing attention, threatening, isolating, shaming, guilt-tripping, humiliating, and withdrawing resources. ~ Darius Cikanavicius

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad. ~ David Alan Basche

It would be so easy to stop getting up. To stop washing. To stop eating. Being alone required such constant effort. ~ Rachel Joyce

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror! ~ Eric Thomas

Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme. ~ T. J. Miller

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama. ~ Rush Limbaugh

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly. ~ Mark Bittman

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. ~ Ambrose Bierce

If you are trying to please, how do you take responsibility for your own needs? How do you even know what your own needs are? What do you have to cut off in yourself in order to please others? I think the act of pleasing makes everything murky. We lose track of ourselves. We stop uttering declaratory sentences. We stop directing our lives. We wait to be rescued. We forget what we know. We make everything okay rather than real. ~ Eve Ensler

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

It requires a hard look at what is, rather than what you hope will be. As you let go of managing and controlling, you must also let go of the idea that "when he changes I'll be happy." He may never change. You must stop trying to make him. And you must learn to be happy anyway. ~ Robin Norwood

We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. ~ Paul Watson

I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic. ~ Tui T. Sutherland

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills. ~ Louise L. Hay