[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.
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.
My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The s...
We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.
I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
He is fascinated by their lack of conventional hierarchy or structure and loves how the forces of capital have subverted plans to control and order space.
