Quotes About Control

I highly doubt that many people are as organized as me.

I'm very controlling. It's my worst habit. I'm also over organized, which means I end up telling my family what I want them to do at certain times, like when to get up, where to put their clothes and when they should have their breakfast.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do against him and I think that was the difference. I was able to control the fight.

Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.

When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

China's government has far more control over the country's economy than our government has over ours, and it is moving from export dependence to a model of growth driven by domestic demand. Any restriction on exports to the U.S. would simply accelerate a process already underway.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.