Control Quotes

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. (Noam Chomsky)
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. View quote
Laozi
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. View quote
Epictetus
I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself. View quote
Robert E. Lee
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. View quote
Charles Darwin
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. View quote
John Steinbeck
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. View quote
Isaac Asimov
If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you. View quote
Stephen King
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself. (Rodney Dangerfield)
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment. View quote
Livy
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. View quote
Albert Ellis
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. View quote
Groucho Marx
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. View quote
William Glasser
The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. (Vladimir Lenin)
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. View quote
Norman Borlaug
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. View quote
Jack Kerouac
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