Caroline Knapp Quotes

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

Caroline Knapp

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• Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Risk
  • Difficult
  • Living

• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Control
  • Internet
  • Big

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Advice
  • Wanted
  • Welcome

• You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Choose

• If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Control
  • Myself
  • Clothes

• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Good
  • Control
  • Execution

• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Free

• It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Understanding

• When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Control
  • Single
  • Best

• It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Me
  • Risk
  • Adventure

• I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Art
  • Control
  • Hand

• Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Control
  • Self
  • Performances

• I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.

  

  Ellen Malcolm
  • Women
  • Society
  • Health

• If everyone was the same, it would be boring as sh*t.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Same
  • Boring

• Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Control
  • Risk