#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

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#controlling #denying #equality #full #her

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#controlling #equality #essential #her #i

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#controlling #failed #gained #influence #life

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

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

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

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#culmination #failure #success #success is #usually