No Control Quotes

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel!

Should women be on any pills besides birth control? We should just give them all sugar pills for everything, they're so suggestible.

Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.

With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Although birth control is a part of my plan now, it won't necessarily be a year from now. I want to use my platform to inspire other women out there.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.

When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I do know I'm a control freak.

Gun Control is mind control.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

I collaborate with people who know I'm a control freak.

To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative.

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

I think I'm too much of a control freak.

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.

Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

You need self-control in an out-of-control world.

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.