"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

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"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

"You have no future when the past rules you."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Control, Past, Future, Fear

"The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Control, Country, Defense, Exercise

"It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Control, Division, Misery, Power

"I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?"

Michael Bolton, American Musician

Control, Hearing, Hell, Listening

"A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman."

Sol Wachtler, American Judge

Control, Body, Right, Woman

"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Control, Feelings, Effort, Emotion

"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."

Terry Southern, American Writer

Control, Difficulty, Film, Sense

"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Control, Suicide

"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children."

George Orwell, British Author

Control, Children, Fear, Power

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"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

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"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

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"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

Family

"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

Money

"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

Life

"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

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"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."

"You have no future when the past rules you."

"The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country."

"It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another."

"I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?"

"A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman."

"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."

"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."

"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."

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"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."