Control Quotes

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.