Control Quotes

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

Salman Rushdie

MistakeControlWorldIslamOil

The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.

Caster Semenya

GreatBestYourselfControlBetter

In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.

Ingrid Betancourt

LifeControlWorldFreeYouDays

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

Samantha Power

PoliceControlMilitaryOwnForces

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

Caroline Paul

RelationshipControlThinkBetter

It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Irvine Welsh

YourselfControlStartProblemYou

Hezbollah has a presence - it is in the government, and it enjoys support in the country - but this doesn't mean that Hezbollah is in control of the entire Lebanon.

Saad Hariri

GovernmentSupportControlCountry

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

Aidan Gillen

TogetherControlDoingCareerBeen

One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.

Hanya Yanagihara

ControlWorldWatchingThingsHow

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Rahul Dravid

LifeControlCricketYouCareer

A lot of people try to control how you access gaming. You know, they're trying to prevent people from buying games.

Aisha Tyler

PeopleControlTryingYouGaming

Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

Halsey

MeControlThinkDoingYouArtist

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

Ralph Steadman

ControlThinkOverPlanetSeemSome

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.

Adolfo Cambiaso

LeadershipControlChooseBuyHorses

Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 states out there that are laboratories of democracy. Why are we not empowering the states to find solutions to our problems, particularly health care, as opposed to looking to a one-size-fits-all solution from Washington, D.C.? That puzzles even me.

Gary Herbert

HealthMeDemocracyControlLooking

The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

Rachael Taylor

NatureTruthOceanControlBoatYou

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

Dave Blood

FoolControlEnergyTryingYouWill

The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

Gary Zukav

LawControlFreeYouCreateWant

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

Rachel Zoe

I AmControlSayWayFreakLittle

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

Daniel H. Pink

WorkBestPeopleControlGiving

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

Gail Collins

ControlConversationFindBirthSide

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

Quentin Tarantino

TogetherControlTelevisionWatching

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick

FamilyManPeopleControlStory

I like to control my own personal life.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

LifeControlPersonalMy OwnOwn

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