Quotes About Control

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?" A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it's your rules or the universe's rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

I am driving an unfamiliar vehicle down a narrow road I've never seen before. Do you really want to be pissing me off right now?

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.