Control Quotes

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

I said all along that God is in control.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Let every man be master of his time.

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Believe that God is in control. There is no need to be stressed out or worried

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again.