Lack of control, he once told her, was worse than anything…

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became…

— Patty Duke

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the…

— Andrea Cremer

“Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if the conspiracy theory is unrelated to…

— Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior

You know what is the worst thing about being rejected? The lack of control. If I could only control the where and how of…

— Anonymous

“Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame.…

— Chris Dietzel

The generosity of spirit that is usually shown by advanced democracies disappears when the public feel two things: that their government is not in…

— Damian Green

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The…

— Amanda Ripley

“They say that people fall in and out of love, but do they, too, fall in hate? Or fall into indifference? It has hindered…

— Criss Jami

“So rather than running from doubt, shutting down our spirits and hearts, or reaching for quick certainty, we can use doubt as a spiritual…

— Marya Hornbacher

So many of my movies talk about lack of control and not having control over your own body, too.

— Sophie Thatcher

My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.

— SZA

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.”

— Richie Norton

Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All…

— Jeffrey Tucker