Controlled Quotes

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

The effects of color are controlled by intuition.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

I think a lot of people are afraid of freedom. They want their lives to be controlled, to be put into a box... Why should someone put a limit on how much fun I can have, how much I can accomplish?

I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.