Be yourself, take control of your life.
~By Emma Bunton ~
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
~By John Henry Carver ~
We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
~By Keith Miller ~
My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.
~By Nicholas Drapela ~
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
~By Esther Dyson ~
Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.
~By Mike Gordon ~
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
~By Randall Terry ~
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
~By Tim Holden ~
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
~By Orville Wright ~
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
~By Diane Arbus ~
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
~By Virginia C. Andrews ~
I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
~By Tyra Banks ~
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
~By Joan Rivers ~
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
~By Diane Cilento ~
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
~By Malcom X ~
To know is to control.
~By Scott Reed ~
I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
~By Helen Frankenthaler ~
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
~By Ted Turner ~
The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
~By Peter Drucker ~
The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
Control success before it controls you.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.
~By Frank Pittman ~
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
~By Manuel Puig ~
To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
~By Wilson Greatbatch ~
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
~By Augustus Y. Napier ~
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
~By Epictetus ~
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
~By Hayden Fry ~
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
~By Herbie Mann ~
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
~By Steve Forbes ~
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
~By Anatoly Karpov ~
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
~By Jose Saramago ~
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
~By Terry Southern ~
Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
~By Molly Parker ~
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
~By John Adams ~
As long as I live I will have control over my being.
~By Artemisia Gentileschi ~
The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
~By Steve Chabot ~
Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
~By Harrison Ford ~
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
~By Tony Robbins ~
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.
~By Kay Granger ~
I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.
~By Elisha Cuthbert ~
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
~By Judi Dench ~
Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.
~By Joe Krauss ~
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
~By Boris Spassky ~
It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.
~By Glenn Close ~
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
~By Albert Claude ~
Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
~By Don Bluth ~
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.
~By Albert Ellis ~
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
~By Michael Ignatieff ~
It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.
~By Marc Maron ~
Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.
~By Jon Favreau ~
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsberg ~
Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.
~By Jam Master Jay ~
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.
~By Peter Criss ~
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
~By Maurice Greene ~
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
~By Evel Knievel ~
We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
~By Nick Lachey ~
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
~By John Moody ~
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
~By George Santayana ~
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.
~By Mikhail Kalashnikov ~
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
~By Shane MacGowan ~
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.
~By David Neeleman ~
Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
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.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
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