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Basketball was always something I felt I could dominate, something I could control. — Metta World Peace

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness. — Martin J. Whitman

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people. — Henry A. Kissinger

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold

Anger and bitterness are normal feelings, but they're like cancer if you can't control them. — Andrew Peterson

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all. — David Klass

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that. — Jordi Molla

Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives. — Joel Fuhrman

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise. — Polly Horvath

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. — David T. Kearns

I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me. — Ruby Gettinger

Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control. — Douglas Adams

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. — Bill McKibben

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level. — T.D. Jakes

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives. — Michael Gerber

I'm actually for gun control
use both hands. — Rick Perry

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent, or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. — Paula Vogel

It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better. — Curtis Jackson

ALWAYS KNOW THAT THERE IS NOTHING BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DREAM EXCEPT YOU. YOU?RE IN CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY - BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE! — Criss Angel

I release all control to the Universe. I am at peace with myself and with life. — Louise Hay

There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. — J.D. Vance

One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions. — Buck Brannaman

Loosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence. — Dan Ellis

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation. — Kim Dotcom

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control. — Susana Martinez

It looked like Mission Control, if NASA's business was launching rockets full of rapping multiracial actors in colonial garb into space. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Let's not think about anything like that. No point stressing over what hasn't happened. Just work on what you can control now. — Richelle Mead

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up. — Irvine Welsh

My life was planned by Grandfather. Except for my personal life, where he didn't have the same control. — Sadie Grubor

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime. — Stockwell Day

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it. — Will.i.am

While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. — Donald A. Wollheim

The future cannot be controlled, only experienced. — John Izzo

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. — Greg Peterson

A kind of sensual darkness began to absorb me and the words began to spill out beyond my control. — Elliot Mabeuse

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. — Fred Brooks

I feel like I've been sliding all day. — Dean Koontz

I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt. — J.A. Konrath

What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother. — James M. Fallows

You think I pretend weakness?"
She nodded. "Not weakness, but you like to let others think they're in control, when it's you. — Kady Cross

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control. — Rachel Weisz

Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you. — Rick Warren

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see. — Madonna Ciccone

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again. — Gloria Gaither

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them. — Celia Green

Women," Erlendur said as he stood up. "They're difficult to quality control. — Arnaldur Indridason

Don't work in a restaurant if you can't control your hunger for food. — Thabiso Monkoe

When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment. — Dalai Lama XIV

A united Noxus could control the world - and would deserve to. — Darius I

The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room, — Terry Pratchett

Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control. — Margaret Atwood

I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment. — Bruno Mars

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. — Robert A. Heinlein

Control is an advertising concept. — Andrew Miller

190 Sometimes our greatest strength shows when we let go of things we can't control. — Becket

Men and women are what they make of themselves. — Seth Adam Smith

Control healthcare and you control the people — Saul Alinsky

Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body. — Randee Heller

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. — Balroop Singh

Give me patience.
Flash.
Give me control.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. — Ian MacKaye

In India I've slowly been learning that I'm not in complete control of my life ... — Sarah Macdonald

You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control. — Richard Bach

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself. — Robert Black

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none. — John William Draper

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control. — Juan Gabriel

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control. — Samina Ali

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. — Woodrow Wilson

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. — Robert E.Lee

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. — James Allen

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls. — Stephanie Grant

There are things that happen in life that we can't control. But we can control the way we respond to them. — Vhalsky

You are a compilation of choices. And you can control that. — Brian Bennudriti

If I'd done that today, you would have lost control. The only reason why you didn't was because I treated you like my husband, not a monster. — Cora Reilly

Being in love with a right person can make you look more confident and in control. — Auliq Ice

Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more. — Patrick Rothfuss

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate. — Jeb Bush

Lists comforted her - they gave her a sense of accomplishment - they meant she had control of something. — Dakota Cassidy

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

We tend to have a knee-jerk negative response to anything that seems to want or have control over us. — Sheena Iyengar

A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control. — James Farley

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer. — Terry Southern

Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now. — James Lee Burke

After all, you can only really control what you can control, and there's way more that you can't. — Matthew Sullivan

Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time. — Brian Tracy

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something. — John Carpenter

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control ... — Leila Meacham

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. — Maria Montessori

We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances. — Anthony Liccione

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it. — Alexander Lowen

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money. — Warren Buffett

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it. — Adam Khoo

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'. — Jared Kushner

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. — Matthieu Ricard

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts. — Napoleon Hill