Control Quotes
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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
A. J. Jacobs
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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
Ken Robinson
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A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.
Conan O'Brien
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The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
Orson Scott Card
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My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.
John Travolta
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I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.
DJ Qualls
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Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?
Martin Campbell
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I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.
Paco Rabanne
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
John Acton
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I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.
Eileen Ford
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My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
Kevin Hart
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You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.
Ladyhawke
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I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.
Lena Headey
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I wanted more control. Painting was the only way to do it yourself. Movies require too many people. You can have an auteur vision but there’s a lot of money involved. And there’s a lot of people telling you what to do.
Donald Sultan
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I think 2017 is going to be the year of the grand return of the nation-state, the control of borders and currencies.
Marine Le Pen
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If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
Chuck Klosterman
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One cannot control the life they are born into.
Phoebe Robinson
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The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.
Dusty Baker
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We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
Charley Reese
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I had to learn correct portion control. I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.
Lauren Alaina
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It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.
Jeff Lemire
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Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
Eboo Patel
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I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.
David Sheff
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You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
Art Alexakis