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Control Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
- A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day…
- The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I…
- I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
More Control Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton