He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Frank Herbert

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Frank Herbert

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
Richard Avedon

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
Jose Mourinho

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
Jose Mourinho

One must always keep one's government under control.
Joe Wilson

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.
Jesse Ventura

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
Denis Diderot

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
Twyla Tharp

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
Hideki Tojo

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Red Adair

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.
Eric Clapton

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.
Puff Daddy

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
John Abizaid

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Jack Henry Abbott