"The person doing the worrying experiences it as……" — John Lanchester
"The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control."
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14 Quotes by John Lanchester
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Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of…
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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as…
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The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a…
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The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
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You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new…
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We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
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Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was…
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It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
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In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing…
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More Control Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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