Control Quotes
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
Adam Cohen
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It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
Federica Montseny
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Take back control of huge sums of money, 350 million pounds a week, and spend it on our priorities such as the NHS.
Boris Johnson
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
Sam Trammell
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We cannot continue to control areas of the territories where most of the Palestinians live.
Ehud Olmert
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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
N. Robert Hammer
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The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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They'll be working overtime to put spins on the ball so that they can try to control how Canadians respond to the report.
Jack Layton
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OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching... I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.
Michael Jackson
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I'm not a control freak.
Fiona Apple
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
Aaron Paul
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
Samantha Power
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson
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Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.
Jody Williams
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
Jack Horner