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Quotes About Control

55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!
~ Jay Leno
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
~ Louise Erdrich
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.
~ Mark Thornton
The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.
~ Philip K. Dick
All sports are time control demonstrations.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy." "Already crazy about you, Sage.
~ Richelle Mead
I hate time. It never does what you want it to.
~ Nick Hornby, Slam
The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless
~ Robert Aickman
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.
~ Adam Baldwin
My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times.
~ Agnetha Faltskog
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.
~ Al Gore
You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.
~ Angela Carter
You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!
~ Ben Harper
You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.
~ Ben Hogan
When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.
~ Brendan Rodgers
The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.
~ Bruce Riedel
Beyoncé don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction.
~ Bryce Wilson