Quotes About Control

He was asleep, and probably still more than a little bit drunk, and she could do whatever she wanted with him.

They are good and fun and beautiful, and I'm happy. Others aren't so easy. But it is my decision to be happy during the hard times as well as the easy ones. I cannot control most things, but I can control my feelings. And I want to be happy. So I find something in every moment that I can enjoy.

His passions were never so out of control that he couldn"t manage a quick and decisive departure.

Some moments are easy. They are good and fun and beautiful, and I'm happy. Others aren't so easy. But it is my decision to be happy during the hard times as well as the easy ones. I cannot control most things, but I can control my feelings. And I want to be happy. So I find something in every moment that I can enjoy.

You happen to life Eloise...You've always made your own decisions, always been in control

As the author of this book, however, I'd like to think I have a certain creative control over the medical conditions of my characters, so I've decided that Anthony has no allergies of any kind, and furthermore will live to the ripe old age of 92.

Lucy felt herself nod. She did rather like to plan things. There was such a pleasant feeling of being in charge that came along with it.

it was probably part of the reason she was feeling so miserable. She'd placed her fate and her happiness in the hands of another, and she hated it.

Sometimes it is a way of controlling others, including family members, because you don't know how to connect to them in any other way. Money can also serve as a scorecard to indicate how well you are doing, the impact you are having, if you are winning.

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

It doesn't make any sense to continue to elect people like Ron Kind or Russ Feingold, individuals that literally are dedicated to growing the federal government.

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.

This is one of those industries where you never have full control of your hair.

In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

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

Maybe we should admit that our science is not as perfect as we would like to believe and that nature is ultimately inexplicable and beyond our control.

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.

Vince McMahon has the worst inferiority complex of anybody in history.

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.