Quotes About Control

Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.

I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.

We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime... setting standards in the world marketplace.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.'

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

Facebook is the biggest nation in the world and we have a dictator, if you look at it from a democracy standpoint. Mark Zuckerberg is a dictator.

Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

As an athlete, I feel like I have a little bit of control - or a lot of control - of the situation. When you're the in the stands, you have no control of the situation.

The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.

With piracy, people think it's about getting stuff for free. It's not - it's about getting rid of the middleman that stands between you and your enjoyment of the film or music.

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.

My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Each man the architect of his own fate.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.