I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
Gilda Radner

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
R. Lee Ermey

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Chuck Norris

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin

I don't think I have ever been out of control.
Bobby Knight

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
Joan Rivers