A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.
Keith Miller

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
Rudolph Valentino

Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
Paul Gillmor

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
Barbara Castle

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
Oswald Mosley

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

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

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Gilda Radner

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Nigella Lawson

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
Don Bluth

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
Cathy McMorris

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill Shankly

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
Luke Scott

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
Edward Thorndike

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.
Carre Otis

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.
Alex Chiu

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Dave Davies

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
Alejandro Amenabar