Controlling Quotes

401 quotes by 345 authors

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children. — Donatella Versace
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. — Voltaire
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that,… — Jimmy Wales
I am all for controlling guns. — Rainn Wilson
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. — Kurt Vonnegut
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. — Chuck Palahniuk
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There… — Robert Henri
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,… — Swami Vivekananda
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like… — Caroline Knapp
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world… — Chuck Palahniuk
What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp… — Os Guinness
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by… — James Madison
You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in… — Chuck Palahniuk
Knowing Lissa missed me hurt almost more than if she'd completely written me off. I'd never wanted to hurt her. Even when I'd resented her… — Richelle Mead
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this… — Russell Brand
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest… — Max Brooks
It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very… — Augusten Burroughs
You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can… — Michael Chabon

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