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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

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it — Jack Welch

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. — Epictetus

You can't be controlling in improv. — Matt Walsh

If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important. — Masamune Shirow

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence. — David Halberstam

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. — Luke Scott

For a woman like Shiela, a soft hand would render her bold and controlling and a firm one would make her bitter and resentful. — Kel Kade

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you. — T Jay Taylor

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending. — Lindsey Graham

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. — Elizabeth Hurley

the best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past. — Hugh Young

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't. — John Kitzhaber

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling? — Justina Chen

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body. — Paulo Coelho

I wondered how those traits translated during sex. Was he secretly soft and gentle or rough and controlling? Hot damn. — Anonymous

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them. — Shannon L. Alder

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it. — Shannon L. Alder

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. — Grimes

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. — Bashar Al-Assad

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control. — T.F. Hodge

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function. — Mary E. DeMuth

You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself. — Christopher Zzenn Loren

Life doesn't happen to me because I don't let it happen. I'm afraid it won't happen the only way I want it to happen: my way. — Carol Vorvain

With your hand controlling all the input and your eye reading all the response you can make them a god . . . and somebody'll do the same for you. — James Tiptree Jr.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. — Henry Adams

Despite the well-deserved criticism, controlling public opinion became a central element in all future war planning. — Oliver Stone

It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Don't just say 'I'm picking the place' - ask me where I want to go! — Cassie Scerbo

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese. — Alex Chiu

I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight. — Georgette Mosbacher

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why. — Richard Rohr

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony. — Mata Amritanandamayi

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway. — PJ Harvey

Love is a controlling power, when it takes over; your senses, your life, and your soul are taken over. — Alloy Francis

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. — Ambrose Bierce

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. — Swami Vivekananda

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life. — Lars Von Trier

If you take the meaning out of the world, all that's left is controlling each other. — L.T. Vargus

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors — Raymond Chandler

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation. — Ken Poirot

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? — Karl Pilkington

The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency. — Adolf Hitler

I am all for controlling guns. — Rainn Wilson

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself. — Carl Hubbell

But that's the thing with depression. Sometimes there is no controlling it. Sometimes it sneaks up on you. — Kelly Oram

He thought the government was trying to enslave humanity by controlling grammar. — Joe Hill

It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people. — Mira Grant

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on. — Nigella Lawson

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing. — Penney Peirce

We can't understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience. — Tara Brach

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

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. — Ambrose Bierce

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior. — Melody Beattie

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. — Al Gore

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker

Losing your job sets you free from the controlling mandate of your work — Sunday Adelaja

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time. — Conrad Hilton

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them. — G.S. Jennsen

Controlled anger leads to positive action. — Todd Stocker

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. — Bertrand Russell

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts? — Raymond Holliwell

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

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. — Bill Maher

Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet. — Marvin Ammori

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes. — Larry Flynt

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. — Vandana Shiva

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry. — Eckhart Tolle

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. — Joyce Meyer

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity. — Daniel H. Pink

The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing. — Ambrose Bierce

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing — John Paul Warren

My instinct is to be very controlling. — Gary Kemp

Our ego is our silent partner ... too often with a controlling interest. — Cullen Hightower

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet. — Henry Ford

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm. — Niccolo Machiavelli

You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely. — Octavia E. Butler

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. — Mike White

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well. — Sugata Mitra

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Controlling others - winning - is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else. — Martha Stout

With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free. — Debasish Mridha

Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies. — Jenny Nordberg

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. — George W. Bush

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China. — Alex Chiu

No one has the patent on you. — Katie St. Claire

The government had been controlling my nightly visits. — Laura Thalassa

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. — Sheryl Lee

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. — James Allen

It Is Not about Controlling Thoughts, It Is about Guiding Thoughts — Esther Hicks

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people. — David Lincoln

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. — Maria Montessori

Corporate money is controlling everything. — Ed Schultz

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature? — E.L. James