#controlling

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. ↗

— Carre Otis

#am #controlling #everything #fasting #go

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#china #chinese #controlling #i #know

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#controlling #developed #effectively #eliminate #established

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#borders #called #control #controlling #destiny

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ↗

— Michael Ende

#beings #beliefs #better #comes #controlling

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#being #biggest #controlling #impact #important

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities. Frank Schaeffer ↗

— Frank Schaeffer

#critical-thinking #evangelical #free-thought #homeschool #religious-right

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#american #american administration #another #clout #control

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#controlling #incapable #iraq

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#attack #complex #controlling #damage #desired