Top 1200 Controlling Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

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

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

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

I forgive everyone who caused my suffering, even the pilot, commander, people controlling me.

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

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

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

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

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

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

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

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

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

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

I guess if I get a little weird about something that isn't the way I want it, and I complain, then it's called controlling.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Ever since Marx, leftists have known that the simplest way to controlling a country is via education, the news industry, and health care. If you, as a leader or as a member of a leadership organization can succeed in taking over those three things where only kids, young people, only learn what you want them to learn, they learn how horrible freedom is, how unfair capitalism is, how mean-spirited, all of this, how wonderful equality and egalitarian is. Whenever there is a communist invasion or revolution, the news outlets are the first things seized and then the schools and then health care.

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

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

Besides controlling my diet, I did functional training, weights, pilates and cardio everyday.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

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

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

The government is controlling your mind through chem trails, we all know this is true.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.

Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.

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

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

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

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

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

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

Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.

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

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

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

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

...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

It's modern football - having the ball, controlling the game, and being well positioned when you lose possession.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

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

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I was a weekend drinker...I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday...thought I was controlling it...but I don't drink any more.