Control Quotes

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.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Culture means control over nature.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.