Control Quotes

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.