In Control Sayings

#1. The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.

Kevin Brockmeier

#2. When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.

James MacDonald

#3. The real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. It's like trying to control a dream.

Terence McKenna

#4. Negotiation is a give-and-take process, but being in control of the process is the only way to be successful at it.

Celso Cukierkorn

#5. God is alive now and in control of everything that happens. There is no free will, only one almighty will that is infinitely powerful.

Steven Colborne

#6. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.

Amber Kizer

#7. When I've been unsuccessful, I've been controlled. When I've been successful, I've been in control.

Katharine Hepburn

#8. She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.

Nicki Elson

#9. Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.

Flynn Meaney

#10. Wear a fabulous smile, great jewelry and know that you are totally and utterly in control.

Donatella Versace

#11. If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind and that will help you worry less too.

Laurie Frankel

#12. When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.

Matt Bomer

#13. Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Camille Paglia

#14. Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.

Michael J. Fox

#15. But the state of sleep, we found, is not characterized by the disintegration of psychical interconnections, but by the focus on the wish to sleep by the psychical system in control of the day.

Sigmund Freud

#16. You disrupted my entire world, Even Tate. I'm used to being the one in control. The one people fall in love with. I'm not supposed to fall in love.

Leisa Rayven

#17. Investing isn't risky; not being in control is risky.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.

Alan J. Pakula

#19. You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

Bill Courtney

#20. As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Josh Elliott

#21. Fortunately, we are not in control.

Willie Nelson

#22. The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Tony Robbins

#23. I hope we win the game tonight." "I hope I pass my final tomorrow." We often use the word hope as a wish for something to happen. But hope in God is something far deeper. It's knowing that he's in control, that he loves us, and that our future is secure in him.

Max Lucado

#24. You are the one who has to be in control of your life. You have to define who you are. If you don't, someone else will.

Ellen J. Barrier

#25. What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Anthony De Mello

#26. You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

Holt McCallany

#27. We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#28. I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.

Karen Carpenter

#29. I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.

Vince Young

#30. What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

Melissa Etheridge

#31. Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

Mickey Rooney

#32. I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

Willie Nelson

#33. You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we 'say', it is 'egoism'. The whole world is in order [in control].

Dada Bhagwan

#34. You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. I had to hand it to Elodie. If I'd been in control of my body, there would have been flailing and knocking things over, and I probably would have caught my clothes in the drawer. But Elodie smoothly closed the drawer without a sound, and sat down in Lara's chair like she belonged there.

Rachel Hawkins

#36. It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

Ruth Wilson

#37. Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!

Ed Crane

#38. By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

#39. Everything about Boots Kelly's will was designed so that Boots would remain in control even beyond the grave. The bombshell Ryder Ford, the Kelly family lawyer, had dropped at the reading of the will was almost impossible to believe.

Eve Gaddy

#40. You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.

Stephen Colbert

#41. Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

Jonathan Darman

#42. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.

Kathryn Perez

#43. This is a day that God has given me. It's a gift. I can never relive this day. And I'm not going to live it angry, in unforgiveness, and mad at somebody. If I don't get my way, I'm going to believe that God's still in control.

Joel Osteen

#44. Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

Laozi

#45. I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been ...

John Geddes

#46. There is something so sexy about a man so in control of himself and everything around him that it makes you just want to do things to him then watch as he loses control over you

Kitty Berry

#47. I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

Mariah Carey

#48. Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

Ernie J Zelinski

#49. He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it.
-Ella

Lisa Kleypas

#50. I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

Elizabeth Olsen

#51. Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Laurie Nadel

#52. I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Clay Aiken

#53. We all think we're in control of our own lives, but really they're pre-ghostwritten by forces around us.

David Mitchell

#54. To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions

Jeb Bush

#55. It doesn't matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences.

Sunday Adelaja

#56. When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.

Michael Scott

#57. The reality is I was never in control. God is. What I am learning is I can only control how I respond to whatever happens. I'm learning that I can forgive beyond just saying it and smiling. I'm learning that I can coexist with things that don't agree with my way.

Kenn Bivins

#58. Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#59. They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control.

Rihanna

#60. Taking delight in random encounters that
come our way is a wonderful reminder that
God is in control.

Mel Lawrenz

#61. Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

Stone Gossard

#62. I really wanted to lose myself. People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.

Jeff VanderMeer

#63. Duff's little moans traveled up her spine, made her head buzz. And another thought grabbed hold: She was doing this. She had the power to do this. THat she could be both completely vulnerable and totally in control was mind-blowing.

Libba Bray

#64. I'd entered the bliss of Washington, physically and emotionally: eating huckleberries, feeling beautiful and finally in control of my self. Feeling the changing season, my self changed.

Aspen Matis

#65. I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say
With every word I'm blown away
You're in control of my heart

Demi Lovato

#66. The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#67. Close your eyes. You might try saying ... something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

Dale Carnegie

#68. Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

John Piper

#69. If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control.

Bobbie Kinkead

#70. As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.

Scott Cohen

#71. Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.

Robert Jordan

#72. Don't try to be in control and don't speak. The only word you're permitted to say tonight is Mark. I don't want anything else leaving those plump lips of yours. My dick's going in and only my name's coming out... that and my cum.

Aven Jayce

#73. He is still in control. He still has you in the palm of His hand.

Joel Osteen

#74. Your life is shaped by the thoughts and experiences you choose - and make no mistake, the decision is always yours. I promise, when you learn to be conscious and in control of what you are focusing on, you can begin to create high vibrational experiences, which will transform and heal your life.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#75. We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

Jennifer Hudson

#76. I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

Tyra Banks

#77. Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control.

Madonna Ciccone

#78. Because any Dom knows that the submissive is the one in control. He might wield the crop or the candle wax or the rope, but she holds the reins. Nothing happens without her consent.

Blue Kincaid

#79. He doesn't really know, Alex. He thinks he's in control, but he's not. Don't ... don't believe everything you hear. There's still hope.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#80. The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

Dane Cook

#81. Do you actually think that you are in control of this world, think again for G-d has control what he allows is for a reason.

Virginia Garcia

#82. Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore.

Michael Moss

#83. At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

Holly Holm

#84. You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

Barbra Streisand

#85. I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#86. Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

Dusty Baker

#87. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

Henry Petroski

#88. God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.

Gloria Gaynor

#89. Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

Beeban Kidron

#90. A self-assured woman who is in control of her life draws like a magnet. She is so filled with positive energy that people want to be around her.

Susan Jeffers

#91. I hover over myself
Watching.
Mind and body separated,
Each in control
As though there are two puppeteers
Working the strings of my marionette self.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#92. As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can tell me what to do. I can write what I want. I might not sell it, but at least I'm in control.

Harold Ramis

#93. Dragos never lifted his head from his task. He said in a quiet voice, "Tell me you're in control, and I will believe you ... "
Straightening his shoulders, Liam replied steadily, "I'm in control.

Thea Harrison

#94. It is obvious that you like to be in control of things. With this girl, you lose control. You despise that, especially since she is younger.- Maria Delgado

AlTonya Washington

#95. You have got to control your fear, get in control of your emotions.

Joe Teti

#96. We labor under the great delusion that we are in control.
Silly humans.

Toni Sorenson

#97. I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Robert Palmer

#98. Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

Dick Cheney

#99. We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about "who we are" in Christ and that God is in control.

Michael Barbarulo

#100. I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

Joan Didion