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Quotes About Control

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
~ Harold MacMillan
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
~ Harold Wilson
I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.
~ Harry Elfont
I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.
~ Hilary Duff
Don't worry about things, that you can do better next time. Don't worry about stuff you can't control.
~ Hillary Clinton
You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
~ Hiroyuki Takei
To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.
~ Ice Cube
Is there anything else you need to tell me?" Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. "No.
~ Ilona Andrews
They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.
~ Isaac Asimov
I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.
~ Jane Goodall
In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
~ Jay Kay
The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
~ Jim Butcher
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mighty army of time is without equal.
~ Jon Jones
I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.
~ Josh Hartnett
Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.
~ Samuel Beckett, Proust
…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
You can manage your life by only your time
~ Sivaprakash Sidhu
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." -
~ Michael Altshuler
l can't manage time.But I can control my 24 hours to be valuable
~ Mohammed Sekouty
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you're completely spinning out of control, but you're finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.
~ José Saramago, The Cave