You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Nature is under control but not disturbed.
~By Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands ~
Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
~By John Wilson ~
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
~By Thom Yorke ~
The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
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 ~
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.
~By Puff Daddy ~
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 ~
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
~By Pat Brown ~
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
~By Roy Ayers ~
I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
~By Pat Toomey ~
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
~By Linda Blair ~
What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
~By Barbara Castle ~
I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
~By Richard Gere ~
For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.
~By Paul Parker ~
Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
~By Bob Saget ~
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
~By Lynn Swann ~
So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
~By Cathy McMorris ~
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
~By Michael Caine ~
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.
~By Melissa Bean ~
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
~By James A. Garfield ~
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
~By Keith Miller ~
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 ~
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
~By Warren Bennis ~
Culture means control over nature.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
~By Irving Berlin ~
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
~By Steve Crocker ~
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
~By Dick Gregory ~
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.
~By Erik H. Erikson ~
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
~By Charles Barkley ~
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
~By Daniel Johns ~
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
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.
~By Bill Shankly ~
Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.
~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
~By George Orwell ~
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
~By Joan Rivers ~
What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.
~By Brandon Routh ~
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
Do what you fear most and you control fear.
~By Tom Hopkins ~
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
~By Darrell Issa ~
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
~By Tony Robbins ~
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
~By Naomi Wolf ~
The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.
~By Mark Goddard ~
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
~By Helen Reddy ~
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.
~By Joss Whedon ~
What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
~By Jay Roach ~
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
~By Josiah Stamp ~
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
~By Susan George ~
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
~By Jack Valenti ~
The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
~By Kit Williams ~
I am in control at all times.
~By GG Allin ~
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
~By John Doolittle ~
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
~By Mike Marsh ~
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 ~
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control.
~By Wu Yi ~
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
~By William James ~
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
~By Leo Ornstein ~
It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.
~By Monica Seles ~
We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.
~By Russel Honore ~
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
~By John Doolittle ~
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.
~By Tracey Gold ~
There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening.
~By Michael Giles ~
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