Control Quotes

• People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • People
  • Power
  • Control

• He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Conquer

• My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • House
  • Party
  • Advice

• Your reflex to help others starts to control you if you don’t understand what’s happening and take steps to prevent it.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Help
  • Prevent
  • Reflex

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

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Together
  • Control

• A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.

  

  James Wan
  • Culture
  • Feeling
  • Drama

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

  

  Alex Chiu
  • Control
  • Support

• In order to not have to deal with being gay in the world, you have to control everything. You try and walk in an un-gay way so as not to be found out. You try to control every situation, check the people around you, that you're not in the wrong place, and that can be exhausting. It goes on for decades, and it becomes mental sickness.

  

  John Grant
  • People
  • World
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Night
  • Sleep

• If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.

  

  Carl Eckart
  • Future
  • Plans
  • Prepare

• I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Death
  • Control
  • Wishes

• We just didn't finish the game off. We've been having that problem all season. Our problem is just stopping people and rebounding the basketball. Until we get that under control, we're going to continue to struggle through 2006 as well.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Game
  • Problem

• If changing strategies doesn’t help, you can try to change the game. And if that’s not possible, you can at least exercise some control about which games you choose to play. The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades. Seek out games where honesty is the dominant strategy. Then just be yourself.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Game
  • Control
  • Strategies

• Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

  

  Epictetus
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Goal

• The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education-just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office-and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

  

  Frank Chodorov
  • Free
  • Political
  • Education

• When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.

  

  Colleen Hanabusa
  • Community
  • Rest
  • Gun

• 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.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Great
  • Real
  • Fun

• I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• What's really underneath this all is the effort by feminist academics and politicians to keep control of the money. It's not about helping anybody.

  

  Erin Pizzey
  • Money
  • Feminist
  • Academics

• It's sort of cathartic - the naked exposure - don't you think? You couldn't do it voluntarily - could you? It's under duress - so somehow legitimate. Circumstances beyond our control. I think I enjoyed that.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Control

• 'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Life
  • Why
  • Experience

• In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Control

• I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Up
  • Control

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