Quotes About Control

National security is that old rabbit that's pulled out of the hat every time politicians run out of other tricks to keep you in check.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.

Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

Depression Quest's' tone is one of hope. Many players have told me they've tried to take steps in their life to get their illness under control. I tear up while reading my e-mail on subways a lot.

It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.

When a country's government is involved in something, no filmmaker tries to make a film on it.

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

I think you can ban guns if you can just pull the trigger and 60 bullets fire out.

And the more goals we set, the more we ramp ourselves up into bouncing coffee beans of caffeinated fury, ready to fly off the handle at the slightest trigger.

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.

Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.

I don't know if I'm ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own how to stay calm, how to enjoy life, how to be happy.