#trolling

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

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

— Michael Fish

#influence #jet #over #stream #systems

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

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#controlling #laugh #making #people #very

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

#controlling #his #life #man #me

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#consumer #controlling #day #destiny #every

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#become #bubble #child #controlling #innocence

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#creative #force #rather #reason #than

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#ball #based #controlling #football #game

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