Top 100 Quotes About Controlling
#1. The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Jon Meacham
#2. ...the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.
Donald Horne
#3. By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.
Paul Rice
#4. I don't care when people think I'm an antisocial, controlling bookworm because that's what I am. It's when they interpret me wrong that I have a problem.
Kasie West
#6. Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
Vandana Shiva
#7. Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child's definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.
David W. Earle
#8. Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring ... and I've already ... if the camera's on you, your face is very concentrated. You're listening. You don't know what I'm going to say next, and now you're smiling. All these things are the things I work with.
Richard Avedon
#9. Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct.
Joseph Sobran
#10. So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.
George Will
#11. If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.
Jimmy Evans
#12. The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today.
Donald Trump
#13. She laced her arms around his neck. "Are you hungry, Azhar?"
His smile made her blood fizz. "Ravenous, Julia."
"Then please, abandon any attempt at controlling your appetite for me," she whispered into his ear, "Because I too am starving.
Marguerite Kaye
#14. Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.
Gloria Steinem
#15. To me it appears that you have simply exchanged one controlling environment for another. I am worried that you are not free here at all. You have simply been given a greater cage in which to roam." My
Tillie Cole
#16. That's what I like about [smoking] ... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
Beth Henley
#18. So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
Rita Mae Brown
#19. Soon the mercilessly even drumbeat fill'd the Day, replacing the accustom'd rhythms of country People with the controlling Pulse of military Clock-Time, announcing that all events would now occur at the army's Pleasure, upon the army's schedule.
Thomas Pynchon
#20. The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
Ken MacLeod
#21. Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!
Katy Perry
#22. I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.
Gloria Steinem
#23. Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.
Buck Brannaman
#24. Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#25. A day should be your controlling and managing factor
Sunday Adelaja
#26. When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
Alfie Kohn
#27. seen Nineveh repent a century earlier (see the book of Jonah), but the city had fallen back into wickedness. Assyria, the world power controlling the Fertile Crescent, seemed unstoppable. Its ruthless and savage warriors had already conquered Israel, the northern kingdom,
Anonymous
#28. Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.
Bill Maher
#29. I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
Gary Kemp
#30. The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.
Prentice Mulford
#31. Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.
Michael Chabon
#33. In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told that they would die on the day they ate the fruit; what actually happened was that they were
N. T. Wright
#34. The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#35. And don't bother to deny it, because you just read it, so you have to be thinking about it. This is the way books work. Also? Velociraptors. Ha! I just made you think about velociraptors. Awesome. This is probably why Stephen King writes so many books. I am totally controlling your mind right now.
Jenny Lawson
#36. Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.
Robert C. Martin
#37. It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#39. There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
Eliphas Levi
#40. Temperance, I replied, is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires; this is curiously enough implied in the saying of 'a man being his own master;' and other traces of the same notion may be found in language. No
Plato
#41. I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.
Will Packer
#42. What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.
Koren Zailckas
#43. It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.
T.D. Jakes
#44. When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate is only an intermediary instrument.
Milton Friedman
#45. When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.
Raymond E. Feist
#46. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.
Christmas Humphreys
#47. There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.
Mark Shand
#48. Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.
Bryant McGill
#49. We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.
Jim Calhoun
#50. Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.
Susie Orbach
#51. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell
#52. I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
Chris Lilley
#53. Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#54. Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
Ronald Reagan
#55. One kind of person is engaged in society without realizing it; another kind engages in society by controlling it. The one is a gear, a cog, and the other an engineer, a driver. But a person who has opted out has only his ability to express his disengagement between his existence and nothingness.
John Fowles
#56. It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
Jeanette Winterson
#57. I guess if I get a little weird about something that isn't the way I want it, and I complain, then it's called controlling.
Kris Jenner
#58. I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.
Gary Oldman
#59. To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.
E'yen A. Gardner
#60. We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.
Mark Twight
#61. Changing a planning tool or a method won't create significant change in the results we're getting in our lives - although the implied promise is that it will. It's not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it's questioning the whole assumption of control.
Stephen R. Covey
#62. It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.
Deepak Chopra
#63. So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.
Oren Moverman
#64. Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
Brian Kernighan
#65. Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.
John W. Davis
#66. Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces. In a famous paper "On Governors," published in 1867, Maxwell modeled the behavior and showed mathematically that tightly controlling the speed of engines leads to instability.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#67. My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.
Paul Nurse
#68. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen
#69. Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
Edward Thorndike
#70. The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#71. I have had another thought on such fates that denies neither gods nor man. Perhaps, instead of controlling every step, the gods have started a hundred or a thousand Cazarils and Umegats down this road, and only those arrive who choose to.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#73. I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
Donatella Versace
#74. Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.
Napoleon Hill
#75. You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
Dick Murphy
#76. Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it.
Ruth Ahmed
#77. We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.
Brandon Sanderson
#78. Maybe you could call me a little controlling or I like things to be my way, but since I was a little girl, I've known what I wanted. I'm very rootsy, but it really hadn't ever caused me too much strife. I really know when to say when. I'm not too outward but I'm very honest.
Ashton Shepherd
#79. Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
Don Bluth
#80. Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.
Michele Montas
#81. I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.
Robert Downey Jr.
#82. I have trouble controlling my base emotions when the moon is full, but anger is the hardest for me. If I'm mad, I turn into the Hulk. Except I'm not green.
Amanda Carlson
#83. But that's the thing with depression. Sometimes there is no controlling it. Sometimes it sneaks up on you.
Kelly Oram
#84. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen
#85. If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride.
Ibn Hazm
#86. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho
#87. I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.
M.F. Moonzajer
#88. When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
B.F. Skinner
#89. Controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.
Daniel Kahneman
#90. Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.
Walter J Chantry
#91. Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades
Nick Begich
#92. It's never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down.
Steve Maraboli
#93. Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.
Rene Dubos
#94. Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
Iyanla Vanzant
#95. The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
Swami Vivekananda
#96. Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
John C. Maxwell
#97. My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
Al Gore
#98. A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.
Jenny Han
#99. So there you have it
my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.
Sarah Darer Littman
#100. It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.
Ron Howard
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