Control Quotes

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According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are… — Barbara Seaman
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up… — Michelle Pfeiffer
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying… — Emily Dickinson
The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude. — Napoleon Hill
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. — Charles W. Chesnutt
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. — David Foster Wallace
One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I… — Len Dawson
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. — Vincent McNabb
Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down… — Trevor Baylis
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice… — Henry Bessemer
This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're… — Judd Gregg
What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting… — Thomas Sowell
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are… — Zhuangzi
Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds… — Saint Augustine
Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it… — Rajneesh
At that time in my life I implicitly understood something that adults seem to have forgotton: that we do have control over our own bodies.… — Lorraine Moller
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.… — Gautama Buddha

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