Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.
I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.
In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.
We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control.
Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.
I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.
My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
