#trolling

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#controlling #environment #politics #your

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#british #captured #controlling #dominated #europe

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#being #chaotic #controlling #desk #i

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

— Barbara Castle

#controlling #dawn #demand #grow #heights

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems. ↗

— Michael Fish

#influence #jet #over #stream #systems

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#fame #feel #feel good #good #i

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#aggressive #controlling #cooking #element #going

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#better job #borders #controlling #demanding #eastern

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#charge #controlling #crucially #flow #information