Quotes of: Control-freak Keyword

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

Bob Barr

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

Above All Else, Success in Life and Business

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

The Alchemist

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

Holy Bible: King James Version

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

His Excellency: George Washington

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

Killosophy

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it

Ruin

If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time.

Shaping the dream

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Odd Interlude #1

While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

It was need, Linden. I don’t want to need anything. I can make. I can destroy. Need implies something controls me and nothing controls me.

Symphony of Light and Winter

Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

—Necesito sentir que tengo el control. —Ah, ahora me has dado un desafío. — Él dio un paso más cerca. — Para hacerte perder el control.

The Undead Next Door

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

I couldn’t control my heart as it thumped out of control in my chest, insistent on remindin’ me that it was still in there. That it was still beating. For damn Archer Beaufait.

Under The Cypress Tree

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

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