Control Quotes

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We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see… — James Hansen
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces… — William S. Burroughs
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me… — Jay Roach
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons… — Thomas Szasz
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as… — V. S. Pritchett
When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an… — Don King
Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work for… — Cus D'Amato
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with… — Joyce Brothers
There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have,… — Michael Gartner
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. — Virginia Woolf
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball. — Jim Sensenbrenner
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the… — John Thorn
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own… — Ansel Adams
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soilâ€”soil consecrated in the blood of… — Douglas MacArthur
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. — Martin McGuinness
The fantasy never got beyond thatâ€”I didnâ€™t let itâ€”and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasnâ€™t sobbing or out of control. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his… — Henry Adams
The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love. — Thomas Jefferson
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people. — Thomas Jefferson

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