Control Quotes

• Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Immigration
  • Resources
  • Resolving

• People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Heart
  • Control
  • Entropy

• The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Control

• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Control

• You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Family
  • Control

• Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Work
  • Control
  • Public

• 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.

  

  Joe Slovo
  • Country
  • Control

• I had two parts of my body: my left side, which was strong and somewhat dumb, and the other side was weak and hard to control but perhaps smarter. It gave me a very strong sense of the duality of the plane that we live in.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Live
  • Strong
  • Dumb

• 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
  • Important
  • Women
  • Divorce

• Virginity had come to carry the symbolic weight of not just a husband's desire to control the ancestry of the children born under his roof but of male desire to control the behavior of women and children. It had become a symbol of successful patriarchy as a whole.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Control
  • Virginity
  • Ancestry

• I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Control

• I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Control

• Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

  

  Brian Austin Green
  • Control
  • Worry

• I've had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I've been a part of because I get the game pretty well, and I pick things up fast.

  

  Jordan Rodgers
  • Game
  • Control
  • Fast

• Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

  

  P. D. James
  • Death
  • Might
  • Realization

• But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

  

  Alison Levine
  • Control
  • Environment
  • React

• At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

  

  Holly Holm
  • Experience
  • Day
  • End

• I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Strong
  • Control
  • Hand

• Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor, because it's up to the journalist not only to understand what I'm trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process. And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context. Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it. So that isn't the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment. And then, it's out of your control.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Actor
  • Interviews
  • Journalist

• Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.

  

  Assar Lindbeck
  • Cities
  • Destroying
  • Rent

• I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Control
  • Fire

• I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

  

  Estelle
  • Baby
  • I Remember
  • Cousins

• It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

  

  Celia Green
  • Education
  • Conditions
  • Least

• I wanted to be able to move quickly, to react and respond efficiently, and to change the culture so that we can adapt to everything that is thrown at us, much of which is often well outside of our control.

  

  Calin Rovinescu
  • Change
  • Control
  • Adapt

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