Controlling Quotes · Page 3

I try and not be the controlling woman I can probably be.

— Susan Tedeschi

There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.

— Colin Munroe

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

— Rudolph Valentino

You control your behavior by controlling your thoughts.

— Rudy Ruettiger

“So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.”

— Sarah Darer Littman

Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture.

— Lawrence Blume

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

— Raymond Holliwell

“Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.”

— Mary E. DeMuth

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

— Cub Swanson

“An abductor relies on you being submissive, your life relies on you controlling the dangerous situation.”

— Steven Magee

I don't think we can do anything about controlling what our climate is.

— Ron Johnson

I have a bad habit of controlling people with their own money.

— Anonymous

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes…

— Toby Jones

Many people can talk for a long period of time. But controlling, you know, your urinary tract is maybe the more difficult…

— Bernie Sanders

We're not trying to manipulate other people, just controlling what we do ourselves. Controlling what we do is being free.

— Daft Punk

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within,…

— Edmund Burke

I was a guy that had a lot of tools and could do a lot of other things, but my main thing…

— Scottie Pippen

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome…

— Mark Twight

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling…

— Fede Alvarez

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At…

— Paul Auster

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried,…

— Brian Eno

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what…

— Alejandro Amenabar

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own…

— Gary Ross

If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been…

— Ashley Banjo

I was a really, really serious kid. And a really kind of controlling kid. Like I had things that, now, people would…

— Carla Gugino

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers…

— Lee De Forest

I'm too measured and controlling - about everything. That's why I take Lexapro. It's for OCD. I don't feel like I'm struggling…

— Amanda Seyfried

My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in…

— Nyjah Huston

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

— Gary Kemp

Don't be too controlling or life will change when you least expect it.

— Anonymous

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

— Grimes

My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.

— Cornelia Parker

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

— Aparna Sen

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

— Sandra Bullock

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

— Gary Busey

“If you take the meaning out of the world, all that’s left is controlling each other.”

— L.T. Vargus

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

— Cupcakke

“He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.”

— Catherine Lacey

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

— Laura Schlessinger

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

— Chuck Palahniuk