Control Quotes

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

~ John Le Carré

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness.

~ Denis Villeneuve

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

~ Eliot Spitzer

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

~ Ryan Gosling

Thanks to presidential immunity and executive control of the Justice Department, there are no consequences to executive branch lawbreaking. And when it comes to presidential lawbreaking, the sitting president could literally strangle someone to death on national television and meet with no consequences.

~ Ben Shapiro

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

~ Nicole Kidman

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

~ Barbara Kruger

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

~ Nicole Holofcener

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.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

~ Marya Mannes

It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi.

~ Terry Glavin

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

~ Gijs De Vries

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

~ Janis Karpinski

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

~ Leonard Boswell

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

~ Erik Erikson

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

~ George Orwell

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

~ Martin Filler

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

~ Travis Kalanick

I am fiercely loyal and over-possessive, but I am learning to control my being possessive. I have become quite mature, though not as much as I would like to be, but have still improved tremendously. I can't hide my feelings, and it takes a lot of effort to be closed about things I feel for.

~ Ranveer Singh

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.

~ Ayn Rand

The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.

~ Steve Jurvetson

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

~ John Henrik Clarke

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

~ Stedman Graham

Religion is just mind control.

~ George Carlin

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

~ Melody Beattie

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

~ John C. Maxwell

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

~ Cher

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

~ Noam Chomsky

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

~ Joan Rivers

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

~ Stanley Kubrick

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

~ José Rizal

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

~ Jimmy Carter

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.

~ Rita Ora

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

~ Travis Scott

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

~ Malcolm X

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

~ Benjamin Disraeli