300 Quotes on Control

• Among the measured decay of onions in the pan and the soft crescendo of simmering broths, every slice speaks to the earth's gift into the delicate embrace of time.

  Author: Mia Harrington

• True elegance lies not in precoiled skill, but in the gentle fluidity of pure expression, uncovering layers as one deeply flows with mastery.

  Author: Ava Chen

• True elegance blossoms when expertise subtly dances with the unseen strands of grace, creating a tapestry of mastery that captivates without effort.

  Author: Ava Carter

• Often, the smallest nudges stirred into the turmoil of lives incite waves far greater than thundering proposals ever could.

  Author: Harper Wendmar

• Impromptu traditions breathe life into the mundane, revealing the stories whispering within us when time knows no bounds.

  Author: Elara Finn

• 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

• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• 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

• If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

  Author: Rick Yune

• Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.

  Author: Cy Young

• Control success before it controls you.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• 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

• Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

  Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Author: Rick Wright

• The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

  Author: Orville Wright

• 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.

  Author: Chauncey Wright

• 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

• Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

  Author: John Wilson

• One must always keep one's government under control.

  Author: Joe Wilson

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

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

  Author: Montel Williams

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

  Author: Kit Williams

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

  Author: Esther Williams

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

  Author: Edward Williams

• When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

  Author: Prince William

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

  Author: Lenny Wilkens

• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• 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

• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Author: Theodore White

• Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

  Author: Theodore White

• Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• 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

• The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

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

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Robert Welch

• 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

• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

  Author: Rob Walton

• 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

• I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

  Author: Marcia Wallace

• 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

• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• 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

• Professional sports are something they can't control.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• 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.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

  Author: Stuart Varney

• I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

  Author: Mordechai Vanunu

• Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

  Author: Jack Valenti

• Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

  Author: Robert Urich

• To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• 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 media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

  Author: Ted Turner

• The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• 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

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  Author: G. Trevelyan

• Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• 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

• Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

  Author: John Thorn

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

  Author: John Thorn

• The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

  Author: William Thompson

• The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

  Author: William Thompson

• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

  Author: Randall Terry

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

  Author: Bill Terry

• As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

  Author: Emmanuel Teney

• The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

  Author: Cathy Tempelsman

• To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

  Author: Noah Taylor

• At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• 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

• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

  Author: Max Sydow

• 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.

  Author: Lynn Swann

• 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

• But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• 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

• You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

  Author: Michael Steele

• 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

• Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Author: Josiah Stamp

• 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.

  Author: Richard Stallman

• I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

  Author: Stephen Sprouse

• For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• Time control directly influences the quality of play.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

  Author: Muriel Spark

• Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• 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

• When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

  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

• Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

  Author: Brooke Shields

• I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

  Author: Brooke Shields

• But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

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

  Author: Barbara Sher

• Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

  Author: William Shenstone

• 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

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

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

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.

  Author: Monica Seles

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

  Author: Earl Scruggs

• Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

  Author: Luke Scott

• 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

• What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

  Author: John Schlesinger

• There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• 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

• The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

  Author: Anne Schaef

• I think there's a point at which money, influence, and power become so blinding that people believe they control the world.

  Author: Iris Sawyer

• Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• 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

• No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

  Author: Bob Saget

• 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

• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  Author: Dora Russell

• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  Author: John Ruskin

• 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

• Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

  Author: William Ruckelshaus

• I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

  Author: Mayer Rothschild

• Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.

  Author: Mayer Rothschild

• When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• 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

• The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

  Author: Don Rose

• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Author: Elihu Root

• The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

  Author: Elihu Root

• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• 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

• Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

  Author: Nelson Rockefeller

• 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 love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

  Author: Jay Roach

• 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

• Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

  Author: Terry Riley

• 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

• People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

  Author: Lionel Richie

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

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

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

  Author: Little Richard

• 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

• We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

  Author: Charley Reese

• To know is to control.

  Author: Scott Reed

• You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

  Author: Robert Redford

• Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

  Author: Robert Redford

• 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

• I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

  Author: Aidan Quinn

• 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

• When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

  Author: Pythagoras

• You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

  Author: Alain Prost

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

  Author: Jeff Probst

• Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

  Author: David Price

• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

  Author: Richard Powers

• We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

  Author: Colin Powell

• 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

• Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

  Author: Frank Pittman

• It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

  Author: John Pilger

• That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

  Author: Kenneth Pike

• 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

• The Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act of 2005 is bipartisan legislation directing funding and promoting education and research toward the goal of preventing, treating and curing arthritis.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

  Author: River Phoenix

• But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

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

  Author: Richard Perle

• We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

  Author: Tim Pawlenty

• 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

• Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

  Author: Paul Parker

• 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

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  Author: Orhan Pamuk

• 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

• Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.

  Author: Brian Palma

• Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

  Author: James Otis

• 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

• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  Author: Marie Osmond

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

  Author: George Orwell

• At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

  Author: Julia Ormond

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

  Author: Carl Olson

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  Author: Gary Oldman

• To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

  Author: William Odom

• It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• 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

• In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

  Author: Chuck Norris

• 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

• Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

  Author: Donald Norman

• I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• Nature is under control but not disturbed.

  Author: Beatrix, Netherlands

• People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

  Author: David Neeleman

• I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

  Author: Graham Nash

• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  Author: Augustus Napier

• 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

• The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

  Author: Robin Morgan

• Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

  Author: Sun Moon

• 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

• The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

  Author: John 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

• Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

  Author: Alfred Montapert

• Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

  Author: Moliere

• I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

  Author: Kevin Mitnick

• We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

  Author: Keith Miller

• Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

  Author: Keith Miller

• 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

• No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• 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

• To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

  Author: Vincent McNabb

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