Anne Lamott Quotes

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

We will not allow anyone to poke their snotty nose into our affairs

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

I would never presume to give anyone advice.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I can be just a touch controlling!

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

A busybody's work is never done.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

There is a fine line between constructive oversight and unconstructive meddling.

The Arrogance of Power