Control Quotes

Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control.

~ Ryan Holmes

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

~ Maria Bartiromo

Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.

~ Nayef Al-Rodhan

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

~ Andrew Weil

I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.

~ Don Lemon

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.

~ Zach Wamp

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

~ John Eccles

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

~ James A. Baldwin

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

~ Alexander Hamilton

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.

~ Kobe Bryant

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

~ Mark Twain

Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.

~ Rush Limbaugh

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

~ Mehmet Oz

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.

~ Joel Salatin

I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

~ Laila Ali

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

~ Tim Holden

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

~ Tom Conti

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

~ Chelsea Cain

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

~ Elaine Chao

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

~ George Lucas

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

~ Steven Seagal

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.

~ Emmanuel Teney

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

~ Milton Glaser

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

~ Drew Barrymore

I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

~ Yves Behar

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

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

~ Donald Norman

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

~ John Steinbeck

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

~ Tony Campolo

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

~ Laura Wasser

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

~ Victoria Beckham

A revocable living trust allows your heirs to avoid probate entirely and keeps you in complete control of your finances while you're alive. You can always make changes to what's in the trust and to how you'd ultimately like it managed or disbursed.

~ Suze Orman

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

~ Rupi Kaur

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

~ Stellan Skarsgard

I like to make jokes I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

~ Maria Shriver

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

~ Paul Bloom

Ideas control the world.

~ James A. Garfield

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

~ Morihei Ueshiba

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

~ Gerard Way