Uncontrollable Quotes

95 Uncontrollable quotes by 87 unique authors

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable. — Eric Bana
The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. — Winston Churchill
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while… — Benoit Mandelbrot
On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the… — Cilla Black
...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if… — Angela Merkel
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable. — Richard Avedon
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy… — Peter Mandelson
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population… — David Attenborough
No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens -… — Michael Jackson
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I… — Steven Seagal
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool… — Joan Didion
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on… — Thomas A. Edison
Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason,… — Robert Greene
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing,… — Mother Teresa
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping. — Michael Ian Black
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible. — John Lennon
My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American… — Margaret Drabble
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. — Dionne Brand
Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women! — Medea Benjamin
As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to… — Wayne Dyer
I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on their skin. Talk… — Margaret Cho
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially… — Al Alvarez
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal… — Mikhail Gorbachev

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