Cannot Control Quotes

114 quotes by 101 authors

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. — Cato the Elder
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. — Claude Shannon
From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but… — David Simon
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty… — John C. Maxwell
Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them through your intuition. You hear… — Gary Zukav
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot… — Roz Savage
What we do not understand, we cannot control. — Charles A. Reich
How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. — Gerald Jampolsky
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear. — Robert Kiyosaki
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do.… — Henry B. Eyring
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions,… — Alan Keyes
I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games… — Nick Hornby
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of… — Marlee Matlin
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world â€¦ those who cannot control themselves… — Saul Leiter
Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a… — John F. Kennedy
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them. — Gary Zukav
You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to… — Brian Tracy

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