...they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)
I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.
The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.
. . . 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.
