Lose Control

Famous quotes containing the words lose and/or control:

“in the pleasure of that communion

I lose track,
the moon I watch goes down, the

tide swings you away before
I know I’m
alone again long since,”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.