control Quotes

“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

topic:mind control

“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:future past present control

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:life control fight

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:others control

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

topic:love understanding control

“Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:future control

“The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach us, how to control and regulate future events by their causes.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:future science control

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

topic:power religion control

“a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

topic:marriage control

“If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

topic:will control

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