Control Quotes

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman

Acting, Nerves, Touches

Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.
Sandra Bullock

Person, Everything, Place

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
Emma Thompson

Writing, Find, Creative

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

After, Complete, Obedience

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
Michael Bloomberg

Power, Nobody, Secretary

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.
Emma Watson

Life, Through, Trying

Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
Roseanne Barr

Night, Before, Kids

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash

Happiness, Exciting, Beyond

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LaToya Jackson

Life, Parents, Show

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Truth, Happy, Liar

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.
Beyonce Knowles

Love, Human, Sometimes

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
Cathy Guisewite

Life, Time, Material

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
Dave Matthews

Feeling, Silence, Situation

You control your own wins and losses.
Maria Sharapova

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.
Jimmy Nail

Life, Angry, Everything

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
Barbara Sher

Yourself, Between, Beyond

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
Joe Biden

Insurance, Companies

You can't control everything that comes to you.
Edward Norton

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
Helena Bonham Carter

Life, Thought, Create

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
David Duchovny

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
Evel Knievel

Power, Political, Down

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

Laughter, Hear, Coming

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Elizabeth Edwards

Cancer, Intention, Deny

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

Life, Good, Yourself

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
Norman Lindsay

Art, Mind, Outside

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.
Dick Cheney

America, Republican, Mistake

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
Adam Sandler

Life, End, Fact

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
Michael Bloomberg

Legal, Person, Law

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
William Glasser

Depressed, Happened, Victim

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