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You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
-Yiddish Proverb
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The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the
-Scott Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
-Joseph Addison
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
-Louisa May Alcott
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it
-James Allen
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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
-Mario Andretti
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If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.
-Dr. Robert Anthony
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
-Aristotle
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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
-Mary Kay Ash
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
-Marcus Aurelius
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
-Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
-James Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
-Mikhail Bakunin
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He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
-James Baldwin
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
-John Bentham
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The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
-John Berry
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-Josh Billings
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
-Josh Billings
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I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.
-Erma Bombeck
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have only one counsel for you -- be master.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
-Anne Dudley Bradstreet
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Books about Control
