The Things You Cant Control Quotes

1. "Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts."
Author: Alison Miller

2. "I would let you hold him," Jane said, "but I'm pretty sure letting-ghosts-hold-my-baby is not on Abby's approved list of things to accomplish in life."
Author: Allie Burke

3. "We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!"
Author: André Aciman

4. "I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say."
Author: Carly Simon

5. "Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, 'What the hell just happened?"
Author: Carroll Bryant

6. "It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn't something they have that we don't. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts."
Author: Christina Carson

7. "When I say ‘I love you' I don't mean that I love what being with you does for my career, or I love how often you're willing to shag. I mean I love you. I love making you laugh, and seeing how you react to things, and getting to know the little things about you. I love who I am with you, and I'm trusting you not to hurt me."
Author: Christina Lauren

8. "When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke."
Author: David Byrne

9. "Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table."
Author: Don Shula

10. "While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to compare them."
Author: Douglas Beaumont

11. "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards."
Author: Eric Holder

12. "In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of the house, in the middle of the ground floor and sometimes dug down into its foundations. To this cell the owner and his family retire if the storm threatens to destroy the house, and they stay there until the danger is past. Bond went to his hurricane room only when the situation was beyond his control and no other possible action could be taken. Now he retired to this citadel, closed his mind to the hell of noise and violent movement, and focused on a single stitch in the back of the seat in front of him, waiting with slackened nerves for whatever fate had decided for B. E. A. Flight No. 130."
Author: Ian Fleming

13. "Like these entities may be the lost acres of the mind, things that have been overlooked by the higher consciousness; that it can't see them, can't process them, fills in the space where they are by folding up the visual map around them., putting things on either side next to each other, like the blind spot in the eye."
Author: Ian McDonald

14. "Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done."
Author: James Sanborn

15. "I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children."
Author: Jane Green

16. "No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being."
Author: John Ruskin

17. "You cant have both.Avian was right. Even though I didnt know how to handle feeling like this, I knew what I had been doing was wrong. I couldn't have both. It was unfair to both of them. And it was tearing me into two people. But how was I supposed to choose? I felt a tie to both of them, a tie so solid I wasnt sure that even I was strong enough to sever it."
Author: Keary Taylor

18. "Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives."
Author: Max Lucado

19. "I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for."
Author: Michael Schumacher

20. "I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons."
Author: Ogden Nash

21. "There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience."
Author: Oswald Chambers

22. "If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate."
Author: R.D. Ronald

23. "The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you."
Author: R.J. Palacio

24. "I didn't know you owned clothes with colors.""I have a few things that aren't black.""Of course you do, darling. Only all the ones I've seen are very small, and I get to take them off with my teeth. You've trained me to salivate at the sight of color, like one of Pavlov's dogs. Your top is making me very hungry."
Author: Ruthie Knox

25. "Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret."
Author: Taylor Swift

26. "There is a reason you don't know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton"
Author: Veronica Roth

27. "I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives."
Author: Willa Ford

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