300 Quotes on Control

• Don't stress over things you can't control, focus on improving the ones you can.

  Author: Amanda Smith

• Adversity is like a fire that tempers the steel of our spirit.

  Author: Sophia Adams

• Fire is only as dangerous as the person wielding it.

  Author: Katara Waterbender

• Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

  Author: John Zorn

• Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

  Author: Zhang Yimou

• 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.

  Author: Wu Yi

• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

  Author: Leonard Woodcock

• It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

  Author: Kit Williams

• I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

  Author: Edward Williams

• I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

  Author: Lenny Wilkens

• I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  Author: Jack Welch

• My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

  Author: Keenen Wayans

• 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.

  Author: Lew Wasserman

• 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.

  Author: David Walliams

• It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

  Author: Tim Wakefield

• The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

  Author: Sol Wachtler

• The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

  Author: Joan Vinge

• The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

  Author: Peter Ueberroth

• Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• I'm a control freak. Totally.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  Author: Pat Toomey

• I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

  Author: John Thorn

• I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat.

  Author: Bill Terry

• We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

  Author: Mats Sundin

• 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.

  Author: William Sumner

• I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  Author: W. Stone

• I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

  Author: Ryan Stiles

• I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.

  Author: Payne Stewart

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

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

  Author: Roger Staubach

• In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

  Author: Terry Southern

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

  Author: Terry Southern

• Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

  Author: Gordon Smith

• As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

  Author: Barbara Sher

• There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

  Author: Sidney Sheldon

• I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

  Author: Ben Shahn

• The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.

  Author: Butler Shaffer

• Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  Author: Earl Scruggs

• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  Author: Barbara Scott

• There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

  Author: David Schwimmer

• But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

  Author: Michael Schenker

• There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• 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.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

  Author: Morley Safer

• If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

  Author: Nicolas Roeg

• Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

  Author: Chris Rock

• George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

  Author: Ann Robinson

• In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

  Author: Mickey Rivers

• My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

  Author: Joan Rivers

• I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

  Author: Dennis Ritchie

• The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

  Author: Alan Rickman

• My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• 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.

  Author: Ralph Regula

• To know is to control.

  Author: Scott Reed

• I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

  Author: Gilda Radner

• There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

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

  Author: Jeff Probst

• Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.

  Author: Pete Pont

• We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

  Author: David Pierce

• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

  Author: Ivan Pavlov

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

  Author: Pat Paulsen

• For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

  Author: Paul Parker

• Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

  Author: Molly Parker

• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

  Author: Carre Otis

• If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

  Author: Carl Olson

• John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  Author: Gale Norton

• The statists want to control the economy.

  Author: Grover Norquist

• Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

  Author: Greg Norman

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

  Author: Patty Murray

• If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

  Author: Patty Murray

• To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.

  Author: Dennis Muren

• So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

  Author: John Muir

• The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

  Author: Johann Most

• When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

  Author: Rick Moody

• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

  Author: Moliere

• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

  Author: Henry Miller

• The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

  Author: John Milius

• As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

  Author: Nicholas Meyer

• No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

  Author: Howard Metzenbaum

• I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  Author: Ralph Merkle

• You have to take control of your own career.

  Author: Maria Menounos

• Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

  Author: Mercedes McCambridge

• The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.

  Author: Mike Marsh

• Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

  Author: Don Marquis

• Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.

  Author: Nigel Mansell

• The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

  Author: Kyle MacLachlan

• Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

  Author: Rich Lowry

• I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

  Author: Rebecca Loos

• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.

  Author: Nia Long

• We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

  Author: Titus Livius

• This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

  Author: Sean Lennon

• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

  Author: Tim Lee

• Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

  Author: Tim Lee

• It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

  Author: Richard Leakey

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  Author: Karl Lagerfeld

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

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

  Author: Joe Krauss

• And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

  Author: David Korten

• I don't think I have ever been out of control.

  Author: Bobby Knight

• Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

  Author: Richard Kline

• In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

  Author: William King

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

  Author: William King

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  Author: Jack Kerouac

• We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

  Author: Mikhail Kalashnikov

• But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

  Author: Neil Jordan

• The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

  Author: Hamilton Jordan

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.

  Author: Darren Johnson

• The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

  Author: Darren Johnson

• Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

  Author: Daniel Johns

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  Author: Harriet Jacobs

• In being strict, you were able to control.

  Author: Joseph Jackson

• It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

  Author: Janet Jackson

• Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

  Author: Samuel Huntington

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

  Author: Russel Honore

• America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

  Author: Russel Honore

• I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

  Author: Katie Holmes

• The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

  Author: Rudolf Hiferding

• Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

  Author: Eugen Herrigel

• He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

  Author: Frank Herbert

• 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

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

  Author: Marilu Henner

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Alexander Haig

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Brian Green

• 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

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

  Author: Mike Gordon

• 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

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

  Author: William Glasser

• 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

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

  Author: Ruth Ginsberg

• 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

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

  Author: Paul Getty

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

  Author: Paul Getty

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

  Author: Susan George

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

  Author: Artemisia Gentileschi

• 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

• Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

  Author: James Galway

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

  Author: Elton Gallegly

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

  Author: Kenny G

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

  Author: John Frankenheimer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Geraldine Ferraro

• 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

• 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

• Our only hope is to control the vote.

  Author: Medgar Evers

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

  Author: Jim Evans

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: R. Ermey

• Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

  Author: Epictetus

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

  Author: John Ensign

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

  Author: Brian Eno

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Elizabeth Edwards

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

  Author: Dennis Eckersley

• 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

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

  Author: Wayne Dyer

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

  Author: Wayne Dyer

• 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

• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

  Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

  Author: Trevor Dunn

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

  Author: Nora Dunn

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Richard Donner

• 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

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

  Author: Judi Dench

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

  Author: Judi Dench

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Charles Darwin

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

  Author: Rodney Dangerfield

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

  Author: Elisha Cuthbert

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Peter Criss

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Rob Corddry

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Cyril Connolly

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

  Author: Joel Coen

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: William Clinton

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Alex Chiu

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

  Author: Charles Chesnutt

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Lacey Chabert

• 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

• We're more effective than birth control pills.

  Author: Johnny Carson

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

  Author: Julia Cameron

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

  Author: Michael Caine

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Harold Budd

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Aaron Brown

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Ritchie Blackmore

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

  Author: Joe Biden

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

  Author: Alan Bennett

• I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.

  Author: Annette Bening

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

  Author: Alexander Bell

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

  Author: Victoria Beckham

• 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

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