"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."

Control, Deep, Earth, Man

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"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."

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"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."

George Orwell, British Author

Control, Fanaticism, Power, Propaganda

"Through all life changes , God is in control."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Control, Life, Change, God

"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Control, Truth, Power, Sex, Work

"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Control, Flesh, Prompting, Obedience

"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Control, Calm, Desperation, Silence, Words

"Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Control, Chaos, Truth, Power

"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Control, Power, Style, Emotions

"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Control, Self, Soul, Knowledge

"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Control, Perception, Emotion, Mind

"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Control, Truth, Power, Life, Wisdom

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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

Christian

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

Grief

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

Love

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."

Love

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

Life

"They never fail who die in a great cause."

Cause

"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."

Politics

"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."

Truth

"The busy have no time for tears."

Time

"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all."

Fear