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Control Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient.…
- Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
- Stop trying to control everything, and just let go..let go
- You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
- That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
- This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things…
- I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of…
- The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world…
- This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.
- Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you…
- I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
- Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let…
- Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?
- The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.
- So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s…
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
- And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters… — Lord Acton
- Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even… — Michael Badnarik
- It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's… — Red Adair
- If you want to control other people, first control yourself. — Abu Bakr