Quotes of: Controlling Keyword

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

Out of Control

Trust me,’ he says with a touch of impatience. ‘Stop asking me to do that,’ I say, equally as impatiently.

Out of Control

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Letter to My Daughter

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Love Is Letting Go of Fear

But sex...that was the opposite of control. There were emotions, and attraction, and that pesky other person that just to be involved. Not my idea of fun.

Losing It

All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!

Screaming in the Silence

...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.

Secret Survivors

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

The Sirens of Titan

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Pour the Oil

…faith is like a mad beast— once it’s broken out, it can no longer be controlled.

The Poisoned Pilgrim

The delicious, semiconscious, edge-of-wonderland kind of sleep, where I'm awake enough to control my dreams but asleep enough to forget that I'm doing it.

Parallel

She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

Possess

I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.

Twinmaker

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

Unreasonable Force

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

Voice of Reason

I can only control my actions, not their reactions," Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.

Witch Born

You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.

Waking the Dragon

There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is.

Waiting for You

I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

Dan Hill

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

John Schlesinger