control Quotes

“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

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:virtue control

“Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

topic:control comfort

“Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

topic:desire control

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

topic:honesty control

“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:control

“Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

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“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

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“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:self control

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