Beyond Control Quotes

• Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

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  Swami Vivekananda

  Desire   Trying   Atoms  

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

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  Jane Austen

  Memories   Sometimes   Weak  

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

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  John Jakes

  Luck   Should   Beyond Control  

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Mar 16, 2015

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• If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

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  Jane Austen

  Memories   Past   Thinking  

  Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

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• God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

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  Robert Wright

  Hatred   Greed   Stubborn  

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.315, Vintage

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• The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

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  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Heart   Weakness   Beyond Control  

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.213, Anchor

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• Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

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  John Flanagan

  Butterfly   Honor   Said  

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• It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

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  Barbara Sher

  Aquariums   Expectations   Events  

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.77, Dell

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• Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

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  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent   Power   Hypnosis  

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