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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.

New, unfamiliar, and mysterious threats to our health are scary. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - where we identify, on average, one new health threat each year - we work around the clock with an approach that...

Quotes by Tom Frieden

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

Quotes by Tom Daley

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Quotes by Tom DeLay

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Quotes by Tom Conti

I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably one of the most consequential things most of us will ever vote on ; a nuclear arms control agreement with a mortal...

Quotes by Tom Cotton

There is no doubt that Republican control of the Senate is the only way to preserve the Constitutional integrity of our Supreme Court, realign our military's force structure, and ensure the basic freedoms and liberties that make ours the greatest...

Quotes by Todd Wilcox

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

Quotes by Todd Gitlin

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

Quotes by TobyMac

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course,...

Quotes by Tobias Lindholm

It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.

Quotes by Tim Wakefield

I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.

Quotes by Tim Ryan

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off...

Quotes by Tim Pawlenty

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

Quotes by Tim Pawlenty

My introduction to cell cycle control was provided by a clear, scholarly and beautiful seminar given by John Gerhart one afternoon in the summer of 1979.

Quotes by Tim Hunt

There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

Quotes by Tim Ferriss

We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.

Quotes by Tim Griffin

I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the...

Quotes by Tika Sumpter

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Quotes by Tiki Barber

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Quotes by Tiki Barber

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. My reward comes in the doing of it.

Quotes by Thomas Jane

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.