For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family...

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?’And why are you doing this to me? is the awful, selfish thought that is left unsaid.’Because I can,’ she answers, and I shiver...

They are hot – they got off to a great start. We’ll try to slow them down, control the tempo of the game and try to keep things close. When you’re at home you seem...

L’Avventura,’ Dad said, ‘has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we’re talking about the...

Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

Though domestic demand waned and imports somehow slackened accordingly, due largely to macro economic control, in the first half of the year, it is totally wrong to consider the Chinese Government stepped in foreign trade...

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier...

I don’t think you can control that. Your job is to tackle the quarterback, hit the quarterback, hit the running back. Big hits. You have to create momentum, create an edge, and that is part...

I have to look at what you might do to another person, … I’m of the opinion you can’t control your behavior. I have to do it for you.

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The disciplinary methods reversed this relation, lowered the...

She was one of those languid women, made of dark honey, smooth and sweet, and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow...

Has he written to you?”He writes frequently.”Shew me his letters this instant, I order you’; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of...

Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.

Our operations are focused on reestablishing Iraqi control of the border, … We will continue this mission for as long as it takes… and leave a sizable and credible force to deter the terrorists.

The real problem is I’m greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don’t want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn’t want to win the lottery. I want to...

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control…

It is possible that European countries can bring this under control,

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you...

Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your...

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them – the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them,...

I have no control over prices. We accept that they’re high, and of course, we want them to come down.

He tries to control what’s going on in front of him. He stays pretty cool. For the most part when he’s (in trouble), he doesn’t stress out about it.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through...

Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and...

What Montel allows us to do is to control the secondary so you can do more up front,

If Toledo Public Schools want to increase student enrollment, they must first look at themselves. Themselves they can control. They can’t control charter schools.

In our study, the control group that did not exercise saw a sizable and significant 8.6 percent increase in visceral fat in only six months.

You can’t control all this stuff. A lot of people get caught up in the moment and do crazy things.

We cannot continue to control areas of the territories where most of the Palestinians live.

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don’t like showing their passports. It’s becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn’t mind death threats,...

Success has no other shortcuts apart from the ones that tell you; control thoughts, delete negativity, alternate actions and shift attitudes to become positive! Click on passion, it opens a new window for you to...

Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into...

It’s increasingly clear Henry can’t control them (other Republicans) or that he doesn’t want to.

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

The studies published today reinforce the shortcomings of our efforts to control influenza.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ”answers” questions on TV while...

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I...

You have to be ready for anything. Working hard is the one thing you can control.

[Charles Schwab said he worries about online traders who get out of control.] We’re very concerned about it, … when we see people getting excessive in their trading, almost becoming addicted to it.

For too long, activists have gone unchallenged as they pressure the government to control broadcast television content, even though their idea of control has very little public support.

I think I don’t sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it’s just being able to control it,...

When we travel, we cede a lot of control over our schedule, our meals, our workout facilities and so forth, so it is harder to stick to our diet and fitness routine,

less need, less effort,less negativity,-can control over greater trust for greater desire within

If this happens, Iraq will stay under the control of armed camps. And the government will never control anything.

My sister’s fish tacos are out of control. I’d give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.