There’s nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that’s difficult to do when we’re used...

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

Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt.

[The driver] was travelling at a very high rate of speed, lost control and struck a utility pole–the impact on that pole severed the car in two and sent the front half of the vehicle...

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can...

The airlines are being constrained by an air-traffic control system that is billions of dollars behind where it needs to be financially and decades behind where it needs to be technologically.

It’s definitely a tough one to swallow. We were in control for most of the game.

Four or five times during a performance of this piece, it is almost impossible to control oneself. I mean for the audience and for the performers. It is such a dramatic and moving piece.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China...

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

Well, the ‘Giuliana & Bill’ show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show, so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I...

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan’s new government to gain better control over the country’s administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

I’m not a control freak.

Fires are going to start quickly, and they’re going to be more difficult to get under control. It’s going to be tougher out there.

I’m not, you piece of shit. Now, I’m running at you.

We’ve lost control of this planet somewhere. There’s an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you’re powerless facing those phenomena.

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn’t perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming...

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

You put all these headlines together, you see the situation is getting charged up and getting out of control. That’s why oil traders and speculators are having a field day – this is exactly the...

The way to control circumstances is to control the forces within yourself to make a greater man of yourself, and as you become greater and more competent, you will naturally gravitate into better circumstances. In...

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could...

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is...

man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job.

I just try to have good at-bats. That’s the only thing I can control. I want to put a good swing on the ball and hit it hard. If I hit it hard and it’s...

I would control your life, every step you walk, and every word you say; there is no way you can run from an injured wolf.

The word is control. That’s my ultimate — to have control.

It begins with the growing realization that another ? the mother ? has it, she has control over it, and she’s not you.

I thought BU played better than us tonight, and they won the game. They just took control of the game in the second period.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

Washington needed this game and we needed it as well. Fortunately we got the win. We control our destiny. Hopefully we can continue this in the next four games.

They’re men and they know what they have to do. You can’t watch over these guys and try to control their social lives. Of course, when it comes to the clubhouse and the dugout, if...

We played awfully well, and we played hard. We said we wanted to control the line of scrimmage. We want to be physical. We just believe in being physical, and sometimes that takes over the...

You can’t regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It’s so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.

Don’t be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny.

Sydney, don’t leave Adrian because of me.””It’s more complicated than that,” I said automatically.”It’s really not,” she said. “From everything I’ve seen and heard, you’re just afraid. You’ve always controlled every detail of your life....

Among these temperamentally unhappy campers are “reactant” personalities, who focus on what they often wrongly perceive as others’ attempts to control them. In one experiment, some of these touchy individuals were asked to think of...

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Mindfulness meditation doesn’t change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart’s capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating...

In birds this is a disease of biblical proportions and it is difficult to control in a setting where people depend on poultry as a major source of protein for growing children.

We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.

We’re still in damage-control mode.

From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way....

One year they asked me to be poster boy – for birth control.