Cannot Control Quotes
114 quotes by 101 authors
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Can’t this thing go any faster?†Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.†You both sound like my mother,†I said. Shut…
— Rick Riordan
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One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a…
— Anne Rice
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why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which…
— Marian Keyes
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Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something…
— Paul Auster
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
— Philip Yancey
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man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
— Otto von Bismarck
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You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it)…
— Kiersten White
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
— Pythagoras
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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
— Sharon Salzberg
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A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves…
— David O. McKay
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To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
— James A. Baldwin
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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering…
— Brian Tracy
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens…
— L. Lionel Kendrick
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Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be…
— Melody Beattie
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No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
— Stephen Kinzer
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If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a…
— Mike Huckabee
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A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.
— Jim Bridenstine
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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.
— Mark Hyman
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