“This has been both a heartbreaking and humbling period of time for me and for my family. But what I can control is how I react to things and what I can control is how to make Virginia a better state.”

— Bob McDonnell

Quoted on The Huffington Post, "Bob McDonnell Laments Scandal: A 'Heartbreaking And Humbling Period Of Time'" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/bob-mcdonnell-scandal_n_4391191.html, December 5, 2013.

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“I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
VII, 2
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII

“I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life and Times with Six Presidents (1970) by Ruth Shick Montgomery, and TIME magazine (3 March 1980) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950286,00.html?promoid=googlep
1900s

“My life has been a privilege. I come from a very humble family. No one in my family was an artist or worked in film…I’m not special. I completely understand that what I did, anyone can do it … I learned to do the things I love to do when I didn’t want to do them.”

Edward James Olmos (1947) American actor and director

On his journey as an actor in “Edward James Olmos Reflects on the Legacy of ‘Stand and Deliver,’ Three Decades Later” https://remezcla.com/features/film/edward-james-olmos-stand-and-deliver-30-years/ in Remezcla (2019 May 30)

“Yesterday a woman asked me, “Should I love my child more or less?” What I said was, “The love for your child is there. All you’ve got to do is let it come out. It’s not a question of more or less. It’s there. It’s prevalent. However much it is, you can’t control. The only thing you can control is how much of it you let it out. All you are is a vehicle. That’s true because that’s what we are. We are vehicles through which we can experience.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Barcelona, Spain October 3, 1984
1980s

“… if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)

“I can’t control them. I can control my decision, which is that I don’t use that shit. I can control my kids’ decisions, which is that they’re not allowed to use that shit.”

Chamath Palihapitiya (1976) American businessman

About the use of Facebook. Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart, The Guardian (Dec. 12, 2017)

“You can't control how lucky you are, you can't control how smart you are, but you can control how hard you work.”

Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City

“Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee https://books.google.com/books?id=BDkDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (1866) page 30. Responding to Francis Preston Blair relayed an offer to make him major-general to command the defense of Washington D.C.
1860s

“I cannot stress too strongly the importance of external controls, both governmental and economic. I do not see how economic enterprises can be operated satisfactorily in a modern economy, capitalist, mixed, socialist or whatever, without some strategic external controls over the firm.”

Robert A. Dahl (1915–2014) American political scientist

After the Revolution? (1970; 1990), Ch. 4 : From Principles to Problems

“This has been both a heartbreaking and humbling period of time for me and for my family. But what I can control is how I react to things and what I can control is how to make Virginia a better state.”

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