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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.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need...

Quotes by Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

We know the risks of birth control, and yet we continue to pump it into our system as if we have no choice.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

If a woman goes to Planned Parenthood for birth control and discovers in the course of her visit that she has high blood pressure, Planned Parenthood can't help her. She has to be referred to a FQHC for treatment.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

Quotes by Aasif Mandvi

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

Quotes by Aaron Paul

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Quotes by Aaron McGruder

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

Quotes by Aaron Brown

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial...

Quotes by A. Philip Randolph

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

Quotes by Zooey Deschanel

When I'm a stunt woman on a movie, I'm strictly a 'Yes sir,' girl... But acting puts more in your hands, and producing gives you more control still.

Quotes by Zoe Bell

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Quotes by Zhang Yimou

I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

Quotes by Yvette Mimieux

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about data trails and social control?
Yes, one quote observes: "People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities."
Is there a quote about cryptography giving you control over your own data?
Yes, one quote explains: "I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice."
Is there a quote about not letting something like an award show control your happiness?
Yes, one quote says: "It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control." For more on this theme, see our Controlling quotes.
Is there a quote about lacking control over creative work?
Yes, one quote admits: "I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying." For more on this feeling, see our Controlled quotes.
Where can I find more variations on the theme of control?
Check out our Control Freak quotes for a more intense take, or our Controls quotes for related lines.

Quotes about resisting outside control appear on our Control Freak page, while Controlled quotes look at the other side of that relationship.