Control Quotes

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.

The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.