Control Quotes - page 95

It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away. (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much. View quote
Karin Slaughter
Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
As a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were merely a way to keep track of the teams; issues were mostly smoke and vaudeville. Nobody believed in anything except hanging on to power, whatever it took. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos. View quote
Carlo Petrini
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem. View quote
Caroline Knapp
The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself. View quote
Karen Kingston
If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control. View quote
Karen Marie Moning
The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you? I'm asking the questions tonight. If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it. View quote
Karen Marie Moning
Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And, if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. View quote
Cass Sunstein
You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV. (Kathy Reichs)
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point. View quote
Kevin Hart
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine. View quote
Kevin Hart
While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control. View quote
Keri Russell
I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen! View quote
Keri Russell
Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress. View quote
Klaus Schwab
I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure. View quote
Chloe Benjamin
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way. (Chris Van Allsburg)
Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didn't have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool. View quote
Quincy Jones
He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. View quote
Lisa Scottoline
I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control. View quote
Lisa Scottoline