Beyond Control Quotes:

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Intelligent, Power, Hypnosis, Beyond Control

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

- Barbara Sher

topic: Expectations, Events, Essentials, Beyond Control

God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

- Robert Wright

source: Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.315, Vintage

topic: Hatred, Greed, Stubborn, Beyond Control

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

source: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.213, Anchor

topic: Heart, Weakness, Beyond Control

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Memories, Past, Thinking, Mansfield Park, Beyond Control

Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

- John Flanagan

topic: Butterfly, Honor, Said, Beyond Control

Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

topic: Desire, Trying, Atoms, Controlling Power, Outgoing

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

- John Jakes

source: FaceBook post by John Jakes from Mar 16, 2015

topic: Luck, Should, Beyond Control

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

topic: Memories, Sometimes, Weak, Mansfield Park, Bewildered