Quotes on Control

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told.

Author: Neil Abercrombie

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Author: John Acton

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

Author: Red Adair

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Author: Freda Adler

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Author: Clay Aiken

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

Author: Bashar al-Assad

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

Author: Debbie Allen

I am in control at all times.

Author: GG Allin

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Author: Barbara Amiel

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

Author: Barbara Amiel

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Author: Mario Andretti

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Author: Keren Ann

I'm not a control freak.

Author: Fiona Apple

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Author: Diane Arbus

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

Author: Aristotle

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

Author: Roseanne Arnold

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

Author: Gloria Arroyo

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

Author: Matthew Ashford

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Author: Roy Ayers

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

Author: Michael Badnarik

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

Author: Nicholson Baker

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

Author: Stephen Baker

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Author: Roger Baldwin

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Author: Tiki Barber

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Author: Tiki Barber

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

Author: Bob Barr

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

Author: Melissa Bean

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

Author: Victoria Beckham

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Author: Alexander Bell

I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.

Author: Annette Bening

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Author: Alan Bennett

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

Author: Joe Biden

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

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

Author: Dave Blood

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

Author: Ella Bloor

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Author: Roberto Bolano

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Author: Michael Bolton

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

Author: Aaron Brown

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Author: Bobby Brown

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

Author: Jerry Brown

But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.

Author: Harold Budd

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.

Author: Steve Buscemi

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.

Author: Ruth Buzzi

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Author: Rose Byrne

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

Author: Rose Byrne

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

Author: James Byrnes

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Author: Lord Byron

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

Author: Michael Caine

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Author: Julia Cameron

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Author: Johnny Carson

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

Author: Vinton Cerf

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

Author: Lacey Chabert

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

Author: Claude Chabrol

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Author: Tracy Chapman

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Author: Charles Chesnutt

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

Author: Alex Chiu

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.

Author: Noam Chomsky

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.

Author: Erika Christensen

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

Author: Eric Clapton

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

Author: William Clinton

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

Author: Glenn Close

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.

Author: Thad Cochran

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Author: Jonathan Coe

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

Author: Joel Coen

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Author: Cyril Connolly

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Author: Robert Conrad

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.

Author: Tony Conrad

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

Author: Rob Corddry

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.

Author: John Cornyn

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

Author: Ann Coulter

We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.

Author: Peter Criss

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

Author: David Cronenberg

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

Author: Sheryl Crow

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

Author: Elisha Cuthbert

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Author: Charles Darwin

I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.

Author: Mike Davidson

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Author: Christopher Dawson

One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.

Author: Len Dawson

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

Author: Ted Demme

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

Author: Judi Dench

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

Author: Judi Dench

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Author: John Dingell

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

Author: Richard Donner

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

Author: John Doolittle

The recent 'panic' to control greenhouse gas emissions and billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that US, and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms.

Author: Diane Douglas

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.

Author: Nicholas Drapela

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.

Author: Alexander Dubcek

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Author: Patty Duke

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.

Author: Nora Dunn

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

Author: Trevor Dunn

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Author: Wayne Dyer

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Author: Wayne Dyer

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Author: Wayne Dyer

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Author: Clint Eastwood

I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.

Author: Dennis Eckersley

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

Author: Elizabeth Edwards

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Author: Julie Eisenhower

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Author: Larry Elder

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Author: Brian Eno

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

Author: John Ensign

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Author: Epictetus

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

Author: R. Ermey

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Author: R. Ermey

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

Author: Julius Erving

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

Author: Jim Evans

Our only hope is to control the vote.

Author: Medgar Evers

Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.

Author: Jon Favreau

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

Author: Luc Ferrari

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

Author: Mike Figgis

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Author: Jane Fonda

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Author: Milos Forman

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

Author: Norman Foster

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.

Author: John Frankenheimer

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

Author: John Frankenheimer

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

Author: Helen Frankenthaler

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Author: Kenny G

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

Author: Elton Gallegly

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

Author: James Galway

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.

Author: Jerry Garcia

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

Author: Artemisia Gentileschi

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

Author: Susan George

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

Author: Paul Getty

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

Author: Paul Getty

The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening.

Author: Michael Giles

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Author: Ruth Ginsberg

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

Author: Todd Gitlin

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Author: William Glasser

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

Author: Alma Gluck

I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they have today over their jobs.

Author: Mark Goddard

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

Author: Mike Gordon

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.

Author: Richard Grant

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

Author: Brian Green

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

Author: Germaine Greer

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

Author: Dick Gregory

I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.

Author: Brian Griese

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.

Author: Umberto Guidoni

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.

Author: Taylor Hackford

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

Author: Alexander Haig

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

Author: Alice Hamilton

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

Author: W. Harriman

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Author: Neil Harris

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

Author: Paul Harrison

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

Author: Mary Hart

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Author: Vaclav Havel

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

Author: Marilu Henner

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Author: Heraclitus