Control Quotes

I like to be in control of things.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.

I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

You just have to take control of your own performance.