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Quotes About Control

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
~ Clint Eastwood
I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.
~ Chris Rea
When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.
~ Sean Penn
Well I think I'm of the view that Fox has a monopoly position... I think Fox has tremendous power from that point of view, but there's also the sense of fearing their audience.
~ Brian Stelter
The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
~ Larry Fitzgerald
I am fiercely loyal and over-possessive, but I am learning to control my being possessive. I have become quite mature, though not as much as I would like to be, but have still improved tremendously. I can't hide my feelings, and it takes a lot of effort to be closed about things I feel for.
~ Ranveer Singh
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.
~ Terence Crawford
For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.
~ Charlie Sykes
In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.
~ Lionel Shriver
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
~ Barbara Amiel
My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
~ Mamnoon Hussain
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.
~ Cristina Saralegui
An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.
~ Russell Smith
The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.
~ Winston Marshall
I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.
~ Lauryn Hill
As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.
~ James Rozoff
Thirty two men keep guarding the tongue. Since it keeps a sense, still speaks non sense.
~ Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
I can't control my feelings, but I'm learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.
~ Scott Stabile
Passion is a Horse Given to Us to Discipline.
~ Vineet Raj Kapoor
The earth you subdue becomes your kingdom
~ Sunday Adelaja
Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.
~ Felix O. Hartmann, Dark Age
Take me to your darkest cornersand watch your demonssurrender to mine..
~ Anjum Choudhary, Souled Out