Quotes of: Controlling Keyword

Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.

City of God: Faith in the Streets

...Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Caught by the Sea

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: "I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.

Durarara!! Saika Arc, Vol. 1

Time flies fast, but it's good you are the pilot. Just control your time well away from hijackers. Save time profitably; Spend time productively!

Daily Drive 365

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

Democracy in America

Everyone would fear her again. And love her, of course. Mrs Pincent needed to be loved as much as wanted to be feared-to her they were two sides of the same coin. Both gave her total control.

The Declaration

...the controlling of the sex nature builds up a reservoir of strength, and it is this strength that opens the door to the Innermost.

The Dayspring of Youth: Harness Nature's Highest Energy for Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Elevation

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation just outside the control of governments and organized churches.

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir about Electricity and Mind Control

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Education and the Significance of Life

Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

The type of love that makes you want to laugh out loud—scream a bit—run in circles—and then repeat? Yeah that’s how I felt about Wes. Totally. Out. Of. Control. Giddiness

Fearless

Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home.

Familiar Spirits

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

Far from Xanadu

It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.

The Goblins of Eros