Quotes About Control

If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

God just has his own agenda, and he does what he wants to do with stuff.

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!

I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me.

Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.