control Quotes

As a player, you're not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.

We have to make sure we control who enters our country. And we have to sustain and increase our efforts to fight the terrorists at their source, both on the ground and in the battle for hearts and minds.

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.

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

A large user base helps shield us from things we can't control. You can spend years catering to a major corporation, for example, only to see your contact there move on.

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I can't control anything that happens after the creative process because after that it's not yours anymore, it's everyone else's.

Booksellers are tied to publishing - they need conventional publishing models to continue - but for those companies, that's not the case. Amazon is an infrastructure company; Apple sells hardware; Google is really an advertising company. You can't afford as a publisher to have those companies control your route to market.

Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.

It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

I only worry about what I can control.

Ultimately, it's down to the individual. Some people are born to perform. Some people need to work hard to control themselves.

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.

My grandparents lived with us. And I remember watching 'Doctor Who' with my granddad on his new telly. These were the days before remote controls but my granddad, being quite a resourceful sort of chap, had fashioned his own remote control - which was a length of bamboo pole with a bit of cork that he'd glued on the end.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

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