Control Quotes - page 3

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. (William Graham Sumner)
All sports are time control demonstrations. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. View quote
William Glasser
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. View quote
John Updike
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. View quote
Earle Brown
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. View quote
James Frey
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. View quote
Freda Adler
Religion is just mind control. View quote
George Carlin
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems. View quote
Neil Armstrong
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. View quote
Gore Vidal
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control. (Bruce Dickinson)
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets. View quote
Marvin Minsky
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. View quote
Lauryn Hill
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. View quote
Amy Tan
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go. View quote
Jack White
Only you can control your future. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. View quote
Jesse Ventura
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. View quote
Lewis Thomas
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. (Barry Goldwater)
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders... the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and... manipulates the credit of the United States. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. View quote
Don Marquis
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. View quote
James A. Garfield