No Control Quotes
Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.
The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.
I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.
There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.
Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.
The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.
And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.
Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
This may be a thing you neither want nor need, " she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.
Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.
It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.
Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.
You are giving up nothing! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.
A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying off what you bought yesterday.
Every major religion documents the fact that we ourselves have to take action to achieve whatever we desire. So why leave it on luck when your thoughts, beliefs and actions create your destiny?
The fact that rape threats are a thing says a lot about how rape isn't a lapse in self-control but often a tool to punish & control others.
My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.
But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—''By time traveli
Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil
The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family
Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.
I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.
Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.