Control Quotes

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.