Controlled Quotes

666 quotes by 556 authors

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel… — Brandon Sanderson
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that… — John Dewey
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… — Karen Armstrong
In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how… — Daniel Quinn
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the… — Piers Anthony
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and… — Taylor Caldwell
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't… — Kim Stanley Robinson
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is… — John Twelve Hawks
I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them. — John Adams
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both:… — Neal Shusterman
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the… — Marcel Proust
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our… — Mahatma Gandhi
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains,… — Richard Dawkins
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty… — Simone Weil
Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to… — William Goldman
Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in… — Sophie Kinsella
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead. — Norman Vincent Peale
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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