Quotes About Control

A life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you'll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn't sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren's grandchildren to live in.

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

When you're the showrunner, you're the person that's in control of most of the details, and to be able to take all that and then to step right behind the camera and to have a direct line of communication with the crew and with the actors - to not be delivering that through another person - is pretty freeing and extremely stimulating.

The stock knows that I bought it, and it decides, 'Mohnish is done. Now let's go down.'

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn.

On screen, I may hate a co-star, have a stomach ache, but I have to convince you of that emotion that is demanded on cue. There are times when I feel like dancing, but on 'action,' I'll have to cry.

I used to be a not-healthy 130 lb. girl, all in my stomach, all in my arms so I lost the weight and I stayed there then I became a control freak about the way I was eating and it just became the norm.

Love cannot be defined, caught, cast in stone, or archived. It's something we have no control over. Love is completely analog. Love can never be digital.

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

Melania's a pragmatist, Melania always - you know, if you can't control people's emotions then why even worry about it. And that's how she lived her life and that is what she stood by every day.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

The influx of migrants must be stopped.

As with all great players, there is no real stopping them. It's trying to contain them.