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Quotes About Control

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
~ Daniel Keys Moran
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
~ Michael Moore
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.
~ Christopher Voss
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
~ T. Boone Pickens
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
~ James Surowiecki
When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.
~ Mickey Drexler
I think Britain can be one of the great success stories of the 21st century - we've got the talent, the drive, the connections around the world. But if we vote to Leave, then we lose control. We lose control of our economy, and if you lose control of your economy you lose control of everything. That's not a price worth paying.
~ George Osborne
We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.
~ Li Keqiang
When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.
~ Jamie Dimon
Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
~ Piyush Goyal
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
~ Julia Roberts
Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.
~ Alex Gibney
If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.
~ Nicole Holofcener
In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.
~ Michael Leunig
Things like dressing, postures and gestures are under the artiste's control. If I'm performing, my safety is primarily my responsibilityso I shouldn't end up doing anything that would infuriate the audience.
~ Shefali Zariwala
A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.
~ Raymond Kelly
It's impossible to predict crises - or to control them once they hit - but you can absolutely prime yourself to ride them out as best as possible.
~ Neil Blumenthal
In life, you're always going to have obstacles put in your path and I am a prime example of from when I was a little girl to where I am now, you control your own destiny.
~ Dana Brooke
The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
~ Hugh Sidey
I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.
~ Poppy Delevingne
A child is born with a degree of primitive savagery and somebody must discipline it out of him. This Is where the government of the home comes in.
~ Agnes Moorehead
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
~ Joseph de Maistre