Desirability Of Control Quotes & Sayings

Life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it. — Paulo Coelho

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich. — Mahatma Gandhi

Her only friends on the estate were books, and books can talk but do not listen. — David Mitchell

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ndamukong Suh is the best player in this generation to hit free agency since Reggie White. — Mark Dominik

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul. — Spencer W. Kimball

During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian. — Greg Abbott

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem. — Caroline Knapp

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people. — Jim Ramstad

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains. — Andy Warhol

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished. — William Powell

The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm. — Sanober Khan

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm. — Niccolo Machiavelli

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. — Kenneth Burke

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either — Shirin Ebadi