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Quotes About Control

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
~ Mike Tyson
Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
~ Nathanael West
It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.
~ Philip Rivers
Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.
~ Rajneesh
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
~ Robert Jordan
Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.
~ Rod Steiger
Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC
~ Sylvia Day
You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.
~ William Powell
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.
~ Elliott Chaze
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
~ Fanny Burney
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.
~ Frederick Lenz
We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.
~ Gary Kovacs
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
~ George Gissing
I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.
~ George Michael
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
~ Grover Norquist
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.
~ Hermann Bahr
Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.
~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
~ Jennifer Granholm
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
~ Joel Garreau
The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.
~ John C. Maxwell