{"quotes":[{"text":"Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["control","destiny","equation","factor","fate","measure","power","powerless","powerlessness","risk","stratagem","strategy","war"],"id":120,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Anger ... It's a paralyzing emotion ... You can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... It's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... And anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.'[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.].","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["anger","control","emotions","inspiration","power","writing"],"id":233,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.","author":"Harry Browne","tags":["life","best","control "],"id":725,"author_id":"Harry+Browne"},{"text":"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attacker","avenge","blood","budoka","bully","bushido","chin-na","consequences-life-lessons","control","culture","expert","familiarity-and-attitude","families","folklore","grapplinf-tudi","history","injury","karate","kenpo","kill","killing","kin","martial-arts","master","opportunity","people","pkinawa","punching","quotes","reaction","ryukyu","seize","sensei","shinshii","shorinjiryu","teach-a-lesson","technique","torite","warrior"],"id":1327,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.","author":"Luigina Sgarro","tags":["control","courage","fear"],"id":1638,"author_id":"Luigina+Sgarro"},{"text":"Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["control","freedom","lies","sophistication","truth"],"id":1957,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"You can only control what you know, what you don’t know, will control YOU!","author":"Harrish Sairaman","tags":["control","knowledge","life"],"id":2353,"author_id":"Harrish+Sairaman"},{"text":"This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.","author":"Gretchen Rubin","tags":["anxiety","control","happiness"],"id":2621,"author_id":"Gretchen+Rubin"},{"text":"We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.","author":"Erwin Raphael McManus","tags":["control","fear","god"],"id":3762,"author_id":"Erwin+Raphael+McManus"},{"text":"Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.","author":"Adam Berlin","tags":["anger","boxing","control","discipline","energy"],"id":3975,"author_id":"Adam+Berlin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1220,"pages":122,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}