Quotes About Control

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

Don't date a woman who gives you a pager number instead of a home number (she's looking for control).

No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.