Control Quotes

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To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. — Wallace D. Wattles
Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will… — T. Harv Eker
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence… — Carl Jung
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a… — Timothy Keller
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time… — Arthur C. Clarke
It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control… — Hyman Rickover
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you… — Heraclitus
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. — Jacob Bronowski
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from… — Edward Sapir
I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time… — Eric Cantona
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future… — James Dobson
I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have… — Randall Terry
If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over… — Pat Robertson
The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its… — John Shelby Spong
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The… — Henry Ward Beecher
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought… — Gilbert Highet

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