Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don’t really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen.
—Angela N. Blount in Once Upon A Road Trip
More quotations tagged with “control”
If those in charge of our society—politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television—can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
—Howard Zinn
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
—Pat Paulsen
I used to feel like I was on the top of the world. Then one day, I noticed that it felt like I was no longer on the top of the world. I was just floating around inside of it. And then eventually, it felt like the world was on top of me.
—Colleen Hoover in Without Merit
I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.
—Ernie Banks
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
—Rachel Carson
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