583 quotes found
“That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.”
“Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody...”
“...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.”
“I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.”
“All men were tools, as she saw it. Dangerous tools, when roused, but that was why one took care in efforts of control. It all came back to leverage. It wasnt enough to ask a man if he would kill hi...”
“The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collaranother means to control.”
“We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to.”
“She was in control of her life, even though it seemed she wasnt. All she had to do was take the steering wheel and start driving.”
“Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care? P 130”
“Mary sat on a bench in the park. It was the middle of the night and she was alone and she felt at peace. She leaned back and looked upward. The sky was endless and expansive and the stars stretched...”
“You're scared of what you can't control”
“I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually results from some primal male "fear of women" and of women's sexual insatiability. It seems more ...”
“What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know my way around it.”
“Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.”
“Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.”
“[Y]ou can't control everything. Anything, really. Like the food we've been making. We can follow the recipe exactly as your grandmother wrote it, do everything exactly--or almost exactly--as she ha...”
“The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what youre in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you dont control.”
“Let every man be master of his time.”
“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the c...”
“Why isnt it fun to watch a videotape of last nights football game even when we dont know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering ...”
