Top 100 Under Control Quotes
#2. What are you saying?" He fought to keep his voice under control. "You love me but there's no hope for us?
Jojo Moyes
#3. What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news.
Marion Nestle
#4. It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control.
Margaret Atwood
#5. If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.
Dolly Parton
#6. Everything under control out there, Carter?"
"You could say that," Carter said from his position behind the hotel. "I just escorted a ninety-year-old woman to her car. She pinched my ass and dropped a quarter into my back pocket as a tip.
Kristin Miller
#7. 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
#8. If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
Mario Andretti
#9. But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.
Veronica Roth
#10. I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
Alan Bennett
#11. Jesus said, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king. I wouldn't agree with any interpretation of Scripture that was used to say that a man or a woman shouldn't protect their families.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#12. The tools we used in Mercury were primitive, but the dedication of highly trained people offset the limitations of the equipment available to us in these early days and kept the very real risks under control.
Gene Kranz
#13. Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.
Alexei Nikolaevich
#14. I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
Geraldine Ferraro
#15. Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
Gretchen Rubin
#16. Dude! Get a fucking grip, it's just a song!
When had I turned into a 5-yr-old girl? At the very least, I needed to get my libido under control before the song finished, because I didn't think that my raging hard-on would be a good icebreaker. Well, figuratively speaking anyway, I thought smugly.
M.C. Lavocat
#17. The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control.
Michael Ignatieff
#18. Relax. Nothing is under control.
Adi Da
#19. Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.
Sri Aurobindo
#20. I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#21. Namorita: Why are you horning in on my action? Orka's an Atlantean criminal. I had the situation perfectly under control.
Nova: Yeah, I could tell that from the way you were hitting his fist with your face.
-- New Warriors (Vol 2) #0
Jay Faerber
#22. My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.
Erika Christensen
#23. Are ye all right, man? Ian asked, in the same tone of mild concern he'd heard his da use now and then on his mam or Uncle Jamie. Evidently it was in fact the right tone to take with a Fraser about to go berserk, for William breathed like a grampus for a moment or two, then got himself under control.
Diana Gabaldon
#24. Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#26. The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.
Michael Tellinger
#27. You better, Artemis. Because if you don't get him under control, the world is going to become the very thing that makes you wake up screaming at night. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?
Rick Riordan
#29. Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.
Keith Tudor
#30. Salander assessed the situation and saw that it was anything but under control. Her brain was working at high speed. Click, click, click.
Stieg Larsson
#31. Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.
Argus Hamilton
#32. The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.
Virginia Postrel
#33. Right now he was having a hell of a time keeping the bear under control. He wanted to roar and tear Massimo limb from limb. He wanted to toss his lifeless body away from Cassie. "Stop the growling, Talen," Gerri snapped. "You scared her into fainting. There's something you don't see every day.
Milly Taiden
#34. The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy ... The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect
Vern Rutsala
#35. No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded
Paulo Coelho
#36. The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.
Anand Gopal
#38. If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
Henry W. Kendall
#39. That may not be a majority position in my party, but that's down the road. You can't even begin that process until you prove to people - not just pass a law that says you're gonna bring illegal immigration under control. You're gonna have to do it and prove to people that it's working.
Marco Rubio
#40. The American people don't trust the Federal Government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control. And we can do that. We know what it takes to do that.
Marco Rubio
#41. My temper is under control, he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.
Larissa Ione
#42. One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue ... They're wusses.
Ed Rendell
#43. It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Red Adair
#44. Brandt Everett was certifiably crazy so far as Shawn was concerned, and to keep him under control they had to find something the man liked more than blowing shit up.
Abigail Roux
#45. If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
Mario Andretti
#46. When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.
Pete Hegseth
#47. As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Chanakya
#48. It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't be enough money in the bank to sustain it as it is, and that would help prices stay under control.
Ron Paul
#49. Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.
Paul Davies
#50. I looked at her without replying. For me it had been more like being a passenger in a car that was going out of control. For three months we'd been swerving across the road, missing light poles and oncoming vehicles. Now the car was under control again,
Jane Smiley
#51. If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!
Bill McKibben
#52. I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.
Michael Gove
#53. Aromatherapy can be used to calm the mind and bring anger under control. The best essential oils for anger management are bergamot, jasmine, neroli, orange, patchouli, petigrain, chamomile, rose, vetiver and ylang ylang. You may use one or a combination of these oils.
Vincent Miles
#54. John (Grisham) was really helpful keeping me on track, not wandering off into subplots, making sure I didn't spill the beans too early, all kinds of nitty-gritty things that you've gotta have under control if you're going to write a good thriller.
Tony Vanderwarker
#55. You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.
John Wooden
#56. Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.
Elbert Hubbard
#57. People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
Astro Teller
#58. I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.
Karlie Kloss
#59. If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
Wallace Stegner
#60. Greatness of character consists in having one's feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.
Martin Schulz
#62. Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.
Robert G. Allen
#63. Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
Brittany Snow
#64. When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.
John Thune
#65. Never in our history have we been headed at such breakneck speed toward our own financial, political and cultural destruction. One can only pray that before it's too late, enough Democrats will come to their senses and help get this freight train under control.
David Limbaugh
#66. 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
#67. The colour of her hair was dusky red, like a fire under control but still dangerous.
Raymond Chandler
#68. Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
Arnold Weinstock
#69. Listen, Ford," said Zaphod, "everything's cool and froody." "You mean everything's under control." "No," said Zaphod, "I do not mean everything's under control. That would not be cool and froody.
Douglas Adams
#70. The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.
Rumi
#71. Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.
Robert M. Pirsig
#72. Nico: By the time I drove back home last night, I'd gotten myself under control. I'd reasoned with my hard-on until it finally saw my way. Who knew you could reason with a fucking hard-on. I guess I never tried. I just took care of it, did what it wanted me to.
Vi Keeland
#73. Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.
Keke Palmer
#74. When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.
Joan Rivers
#75. What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
Mike Ditka
#76. With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.
Maddy Malhotra
#77. America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.
Bobby Fischer
#78. My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.
Gianluigi Buffon
#79. Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to keep this ideology and this drive under control. Science is here no different from other institutions.
Paul Feyerabend
#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. ... We never will have balance in our lives unless our finances are securely under control.
M. Russell Ballard
#82. Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.
T. Harv Eker
#83. The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
Roberto Bolano
#84. No one really appreciated how much of security work was just trying to keep things under control for a few more minutes, giving everyone involved in the crisis a little time to think it all through.
James S.A. Corey
#85. He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work
Swami Vivekananda
#86. I like drums, really, if they're under control.
Earl Scruggs
#87. The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!
John Hagee
#88. Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died ... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control?
Lionel Suggs
#89. 'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.
Travis Bradberry
#90. There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
Ma Jun
#91. But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.
Umberto Guidoni
#92. We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.
Carl Safina
#93. As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.
Michael P. Anderson
#94. Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go their own separate ways. They're lulled into believing they've got everything under control and don't need what they did before.
Laura Wiess
#95. If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
David Lloyd George
#96. The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.
Paul Weyrich
#97. By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. Our goal is to find the Institute." "How are we gonna do that?" Angel asked. "I have a plan," I said firmly. God, I was really going to have to get all this lying under control.
James Patterson
#99. Plenty of 'sane' people can't manage to keep it all under control. Their mental state - stress, anxiety, frustration - gets in the way of their ability to be happy.
Sanderson, Brandon (2012-09-11). Legion (Kindle Locations 549-551). Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC. Kindle Edition.
Brandon Sanderson
#100. The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
Martin McGuinness
