A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Marshall Field

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
Benjamin Cohen

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.
Jon Porter

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.
Milos Forman

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
Brian De Palma

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.
Ron Livingston

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
Raymond Holliwell

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
Erik H. Erikson

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
Jay Roach

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
John Henry Carver

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
Nicolas Roeg

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.
Umberto Guidoni

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.
Nigel Mansell

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
Robert Casey

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
Bruce Jackson

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
Ulrich Beck