Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

— Mike Norton

Anger ... It's a paralyzing emotion ... You can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... It's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... And anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.'[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.].

— Toni Morrison

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

— Harry Browne

On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

— Luigina Sgarro

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

— Bryant McGill

You can only control what you know, what you don’t know, will control YOU!

— Harrish Sairaman

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

— Gretchen Rubin

We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.

— Erwin Raphael McManus

Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.

— Adam Berlin