583 quotes found
“You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?”
“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so ...”
“The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used t...”
“Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.”
“...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...”
“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken t...”
“Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things.”
“The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it...”
“Fortunately, we are not in control.”
“No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power an...”
“I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change most notab...”
“The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.”
“You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.”
“When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.”
“I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.”
“How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.”
“Professional sports are something they can't control.”
“Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take contro...”
“People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.”
“This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.”
