The last thing that I’ve been unable to control in my quest to control everything around me is death.
Control Quotes
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I have discovered through trial and error, primarily the latter, that none of us stands at the helm of life’s great ocean liner; control is an illusion; destination itself is a pitiful chimera; we are at best mere passengers aboard a drifiting vessel, some of us in steerage, some in first class, all at the […]
If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
I’ve often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.
As long as I have you, there is just one other thing I’ll always need – tremendous self-control.
The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.