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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But that's the thing with depression. Sometimes there is no controlling it. Sometimes it sneaks up on you.
— Kelly Oram
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
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
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
— Annie Baker
To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.
— Conrad Hilton
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
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
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
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
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
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