Control Quotes
Control is easier to want than to keep.
This page leans into control as it relates to information — encrypted files that let you choose what to surrender, the digital trails automated crawlers can piece together — alongside a more personal admission about having no control over public recognition. See our Controlling quotes for a related angle.
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
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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.
I've been in baseball my whole life, so I understand there's a lot in baseball that is out of your control, and you have to focus on the things you can control.
I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they've done with me?
I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.
I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.
But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.
When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.
It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.
America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.
This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.
When I made 'What They Want,' I was going crazy. When I made 'Losin Control,' I was going crazy, when I made all the songs that are on my Soundcloud, every time I was out, I went crazy, like it...
Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a quote about data trails and social control?
Is there a quote about cryptography giving you control over your own data?
Is there a quote about not letting something like an award show control your happiness?
Is there a quote about lacking control over creative work?
Where can I find more variations on the theme of control?
Quotes about resisting outside control appear on our Control Freak page, while Controlled quotes look at the other side of that relationship.
