. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.
The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.
Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.
...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.
Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.
[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.
Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.
The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.
To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.
Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.
We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to.
Love isn’t about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The s...
We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.
