The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.
I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
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.
What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.
Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.
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.
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.
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
That's the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that's uncontrollable.
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.
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
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.
When I harnessed its seemingly uncontrollable might, I realized bipolar disorder's powers could be used for good. My diagnosis didn't have to be an affliction. It could simply be the gift of extraordinary emotions.
As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.
When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.
Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.
My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.
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.
Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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!
All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!
I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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.
Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.
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.
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.'
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
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.
I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
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.
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.
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.
I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.
A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss
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.
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it's often a metaphor for human powerlessness over the world.
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
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.
Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind
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.
The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.
My London is racy. Hyper. Unpredictable. Uncontrollable. Er. Intense.
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.
I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it's so irrelevant and uncontrollable.
Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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