“ When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. ”
- Dick Murphy- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. ”
- Albert Pike- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ”
- Raoul Vaneigem- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture. ”
- Jerome Wiesner- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ Controlling my temper is important,... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
- 3.1K
“ This team tomorrow, they start scoring runs, they don't stop. We need to do a better job of controlling the game than we did tonight. ”
- Joe Torre- Copy
- 2.5K
“ More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. ”
- Jack Schwartz- Copy
- 2K
“ Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts? ”
- Raymond Holliwell- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race. ”
- Henry G. Stott- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. ”
- Henry B. Adams- Copy
- 4K
“ Education is the controlling grace to the young, consolation to the old, wealth to the poor, and ornament to the rich. ”
- Diogenes Laërtius- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 2K
“ The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate it effectively. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
- 3.8K
“ You cannot escape the results of your thoughts… Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration. ”
- James Allen- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. ”
- Alejandro Amenabar- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ”
- Dave Davies- Copy
- 568
“ The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it. ”
- John Huston- Copy
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“ That's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's… to make people question that and make people think about different perspectives. ”
- Marilyn Manson- Copy
- 239
“ Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused. ”
- Gilda Radner- Copy
- 1.9K
“ What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. ”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti- Copy
- 1.8K
“ In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. ”
- Susanne Langer- Copy
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