Uncontrollable Quotes

• The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.

  Ai Weiwei

  Winning, Simple, Internet

  "China's Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  29 Copy quote

• I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

  Eric Bana

  Character, Thinking, Situation

  7 Copy quote

• I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Taken, Long Ago, Storm

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.215, Vintage

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Time, Men, Space

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 85), 1951.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Believe

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

  Fritz Todt

  Beauty, Spiritual, Uncontrollable Urge

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Yield

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Military, War

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

  James Taylor

  Shoes, Six, Boring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Strong Women, Time, Uncontrollable Urge

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

  E. W. Howe

  People, Desire, Would Be

  8 Copy quote

• Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

  John Lennon

  Motivational, Success

  16 Copy quote

• Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

  Homer

  Laughter, Blessed

  Homer, Martin Hammond (2000). “The odyssey”, Duckbacks

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Anger, Men

  7 Copy quote

• Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Men, Self, Sorrow

  9 Copy quote

• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Self

  7 Copy quote

• My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Catharsis, World

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Beauty, Reconstruction

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Blow, Light

  30 Copy quote

• A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Order, Water

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 06, 2011

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

  Al Alvarez

  Art, Coherence, May

  16 Copy quote

• The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

  Susan Sontag

  Worst Case Scenario, Needs, Taste

  26 Copy quote

• The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Teenager, Real

  6 Copy quote

• The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

  John Irving

  Character, Effort, Elements

  4 Copy quote