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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley

Soul, Cannot, Fate

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Great, Wish

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

Anger, Nothing, Against

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
John Adams

Law, Support, Laws

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O'Connor

Men, Fail, Reputation

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams

Anger, Others, Ourselves

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud

Place, Ends, Proper

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert Schweitzer

Perfection, Ethics, Inner

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman

Single, Whole, Universe

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Eric Hobsbawm

Against, Foreign, Global

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
P. J. O'Rourke

Anger, Angry, America

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus

Life, Wise, Greatest

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
Henry A. Wallace

Power, Political, May

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Equality, Means, Individual

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan Sontag

Life, Important, Creative

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
Quentin Tarantino

Everything, Remember, Movie

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. Bush

Women, Men, Greatest

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
Steven Spielberg

Success, Failure, Single

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Tadao Ando

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace

Life, Change, End

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Stephen Fry

Long, Writing, Happen

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Action, Ends, Clearly

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
Ryan Gosling

Men, Stupid, Strong

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.
Stephen Fry

Love, Time, Great

Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.
Simon Mainwaring

Education, Enough, Poverty

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
Catherine Deneuve

Strong, True, Else

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.
Keanu Reeves

Work, Beautiful, True

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Joseph Lancaster

Youth, Action, Genius

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
Lena Dunham

Family, Time, Dating

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.
John Malkovich

Someone, Play, Whatever

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