Pastoral Resources

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

Culture means control over nature.