Control Quotes

• I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Control
  • Manipulate

• I’m saying that men go from control by their mothers to control by their wives, and this is the horror men’s lives. And feminism refuses to see this.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Control

• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Time
  • Change
  • Leadership

• Women will always control the experience on Bumble.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Always

• Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Heart
  • Control

• If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Control
  • Church
  • Literature

• Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Up
  • Control

• Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Devil
  • Worked
  • Worker

• We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Respect

• Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nature

• As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Writing
  • Couple
  • Author

• Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • War
  • Hate
  • Fool

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Control
  • Collaboration

• Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Great
  • May
  • Artists

• 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
  • Society
  • Control
  • Design

• Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Control

• Under command and control, these different radio systems can interoperate with one another.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Different
  • Radio
  • Command

• The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • War
  • Control
  • Innovation

• When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Control

• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  

  Abram Hoffer
  • Wealth
  • Research
  • Companies

• If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • Control
  • Party

• If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.

  

  A. C. Green Jr.
  • Control
  • Period

• Looking back, I can see that my life with David was molded by forces beyond my control and even my understanding. Still, I don't regret trying.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Understanding

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