Uncontrollable quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods. -- Homer
  • Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. -- E. W. Howe
  • I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable. -- Eric Bana
  • For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
  • 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
  • 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
  • I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable. -- Richard Avedon
  • The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that. -- Ai Weiwei
  • Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible. -- John Lennon
  • The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. -- Winston Churchill
  • 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
  • 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
  • It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
  • The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
  • No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you. -- Michael Jackson
  • Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being -- Robert Greene
  • 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
  • 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
  • Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes. -- Abraham Maslow
  • 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
  • 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
  • We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that there is a third uncontrollable, almost undefeatable threat that is going to come in when the characters of the show are at their most vulnerable. It's really going to be something that they have a hard time dealing with. -- Robert Kirkman
  • Nature of life is fragile. Uncontrollable events happen all the time in life. -- Kishore Bansal
  • Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I'll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude will shine through .........I'll let my Tehrror free on you -my own zsadist quote from the black dagger brotherhood that i found online -- J.R. Ward
  • It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. -- Rudy Rucker
  • I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. -- Richard Avedon
  • I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today. -- Billy Collins
  • Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with. -- Maurice Greene
  • Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program. -- Felicity Jones
  • We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. -- Federica Montseny
  • What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. -- Simon Travaglia
  • When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform. -- Chuck Hagel
  • Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. -- Peter Mandelson
  • For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.' -- Steven Seagal
  • All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it. -- Jim Crace
  • Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable. -- Elliot Cowan
  • My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight... -- John James Audubon
  • The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. -- William Butler Yeats
  • A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss -- Simon Haynes
  • IĆ¢??m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin. -- Lynn Emanuel
  • Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. -- John Edgar Wideman
  • What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter. -- Charlotte Alington Barnard
  • Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. -- Euripides
  • All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt! -- Charles M. Schulz
  • People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. -- Dionne Brand
  • Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. -- Epictetus
  • Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. -- Howard Pattee
  • Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. -- John Adams
  • And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want. -- Michael Neill
  • So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping. -- Michael Ian Black
  • Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom. -- William Arthur Ward
  • She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind -- Alessandro Baricco
  • The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
  • That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety. -- Alex Ebert
  • When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women! -- Medea Benjamin
  • Passion is that strong and mostly uncontrollable feeling of love that one has towards what he want to do or does. It is dependent on emotions. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express. -- Kathy Acker
  • When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can't think of a higher honor for a writer. -- Roberto Bolano
  • I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me. -- David Sedaris
  • Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me. -- Kenneth Oppel
  • Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events. -- Mohadesa Najumi
  • The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood. -- George Grosz
  • ...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures. -- Angela Merkel
  • Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that may or may not lie beyond the proscenium arch. -- Norman Lock
  • I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths. -- Francoise Sagan
  • On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the most disappointing dates become meritorious on girls night in. -- Cilla Black
  • It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian. -- Winston Churchill
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share