#control

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow. ↗

#controlling #dawn #demand #grow #heights

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#confident #control #feel #going #hand

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.... ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#control

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

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 the shipping routes and raw materials they control. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#conquered #control #dependent #energy #europe

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control. ↗

— Virginia C. Andrews

#being #children #control #deep-seated #established

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control! ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#gear #got #high #like #out

I'm not a control freak. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#control freak #freak #i

I'm not worried. I'm in control. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#i #worried

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. ↗