Top 93 Control Words Quotes
#1. When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.
Julius Erving
#2. People that want to control words will never ever try to break up, like, a fight on a subway. They will never confront an aggressive person on the bus. They prefer their fights to be easy.
Greg Gutfeld
#3. Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.
Steven Redhead
#4. True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
Joshua Harris
#5. Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal ... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal ... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.
Penelope Leach
#6. You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.
Romana Kryzanowska
#7. Once the tears started she didn't know how to stop them. Words and tears - they were the twin gauges of her mental health that took over when she lost control, one drying up, the other oozing from her without consent. She
Sonali Dev
#8. As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
Nicholas Meyer
#9. For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.
Doris Lessing
#10. The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.
Philip K. Dick
#11. Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.
Jeff VanderMeer
#12. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.
Nikki Rowe
#13. You cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
Lang Leav
#14. I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.
Kevin Sampsell
#15. Life is affected, even controlled by how thoughts are communicated in both words and actions.
Steven Redhead
#16. Those words tasted bitter.
But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of me. Words were not things you could control. Not always.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#17. When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.
Rhonda Britten
#18. Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.
Prentice Mulford
#19. Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team!
DeWayne Owens
#20. In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
Ann Coulter
#21. Those who are arrogant and controlling are determined to cling to spoken words but peaceful hearts are unafraid to go deeper beneath the surface.
Kate McGahan
#22. Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.
Abhijit Naskar
#23. Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words ...
J.K. Rowling
#24. Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.
Jack LaLanne
#25. I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.
Casey James
#26. In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
Christopher Hitchens
#27. Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
William Osler
#28. It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).
Robin Meade
#29. But even in the full flower of her fury, Carceret was perfectly in control. She didn't lash out wildly or snarl at me. She kept her words inside her, burning them like fuel.
Patrick Rothfuss
#30. Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn
"Every rose has its thorn?" Jo
"Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Aldous Huxley
#32. Writing is the act of creation. Put words on a page, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to seven-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him.
Chuck Wendig
#33. An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
Sebastian Junger
#34. The only way to know how prayer works is to have complete knowledge and control of the past, present, and future. In other words, you can figure out how prayer works if you are God.
Paul E. Miller
#35. Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas.
Gwendoline Riley
#36. Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#37. You sound like a control freak." The words are out of my mouth before I can stop them.
"Oh, I exercise control in all things, Miss Steele," he says without a trace of humor in his smile.
E.L. James
#38. It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language.
Saif Samir
#39. Proverbs 25:28 says, "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control." In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside.
Myles Munroe
#40. As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.
Linda Gordon
#41. Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.
Tahereh Mafi
#42. We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.
Paul David Tripp
#43. In other words, people who had substantive discussions with their doctor about their end-of-life preferences were far more likely to die at peace and in control of their situation and to spare their family anguish. A
Atul Gawande
#44. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
Eboo Patel
#45. He belonged in the countryside, she thought - he belonged everywhere - he was a man who belonged on earth - and then she thought of the words which were more exact: he was a man to whom the earth belonged, the man at home on earth and in control.
Ayn Rand
#46. The neurological feedback and resulting control of the muscles involved in speech is extremely complex. The mind is involved in a far greater task than simply remembering vocabulary and organizing words into meaningful sentences.
Lynn Lundquist
#47. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda
#48. The choices that are most powerful in generating motivation, in other words, are decisions that do two things: They convince us we're in control and they endow our actions with larger meaning.
Charles Duhigg
#49. The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.
Lisa Kleypas
#50. If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.
Henry Mintzberg
#51. We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean
Malcolm Gladwell
#52. There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Orson Scott Card
#53. Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.
Megan Fox
#54. Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
Bergen Evans
#55. The way to control your life is to control your choice of words and thoughts. No one thinks in your mind but you.
Louise L. Hay
#56. I am young, and, therefor, I know my words only carry a certain weight in the world, but I do know enough to realize you cannot control the actions of others. You can only control what you do with yourself afterward.
Renee Ahdieh
#57. I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
Elif Safak
#59. I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.
Gloria Whelan
#60. Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.
Ariana Godoy
#61. However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a factory: just a meaningless production of words.
Alice Driver
#62. Progressives' don't just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.
Kathy Shaidle
#63. Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. It takes every fucking ounce of my self-control to say the next three words. 'Lead the way.
Liz Reinhardt
#65. There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices?
Tom Cunningham
#66. The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
George Orwell
#67. Slowly the darkness began to weave its way into my mind, and before long I was hopelessly out of control. I could not follow the path of my own thoughts. Sentences flew around in my head and fragmented first into phrases and then words; finally, only sounds remained.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#68. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.
Steven Cuoco
#69. No situation is beyond God's control. Over my wife's desk are these words: Fear not the future; God is already there.
Billy Graham
#70. - "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on"
- "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again.
Kiersten White
#71. If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
Mark Driscoll
#72. A kind of sensual darkness began to absorb me and the words began to spill out beyond my control.
Elliot Mabeuse
#73. Priceless virtues are love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, goodness, long-suffering, patience faithfulness and self-control.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. Safe wasn't quite what appealed to her right then. Safe wasn't how she felt. Invincible, in control, powerful- those words felt closer to true.
Melissa Marr
#75. Person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.
Robert Greene
#76. In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.
Gregory Bateson
#77. There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
Publilius Syrus
#78. This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#80. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
Elmore Leonard
#81. And I know
The scariest part is letting go
Cause love is a ghost you can't control
Christina Perri
#82. I weigh my words before I say them. They're one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.
Megan Miranda
#83. Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.
Robert M. Pirsig
#84. Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.
Lawren Leo
#86. Learn the lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.
Robert Greene
#87. Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out ... and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.
Laura Munson
#88. Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that's out of my control.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#89. It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.
Theodore Dalrymple
#90. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.
Jeffrey Meyers
#91. The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#92. Yes, words were superior; they maintained a superior control; they touched without your touching; they were at once the bait, the hook, the line, the pole, and the water in between.
William H Gass
#93. Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.
Ralph Fletcher
