It is the responsibility of Afghanistan’s new government to gain better control over the country’s administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

I’m not a control freak.

Fires are going to start quickly, and they’re going to be more difficult to get under control. It’s going to be tougher out there.

I’m not, you piece of shit. Now, I’m running at you.

We’ve lost control of this planet somewhere. There’s an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you’re powerless facing those phenomena.

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn’t perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming...

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

You put all these headlines together, you see the situation is getting charged up and getting out of control. That’s why oil traders and speculators are having a field day – this is exactly the...

The way to control circumstances is to control the forces within yourself to make a greater man of yourself, and as you become greater and more competent, you will naturally gravitate into better circumstances. In...

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could...

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is...

man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job.

I just try to have good at-bats. That’s the only thing I can control. I want to put a good swing on the ball and hit it hard. If I hit it hard and it’s...

I would control your life, every step you walk, and every word you say; there is no way you can run from an injured wolf.

The word is control. That’s my ultimate — to have control.

It begins with the growing realization that another ? the mother ? has it, she has control over it, and she’s not you.

I thought BU played better than us tonight, and they won the game. They just took control of the game in the second period.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

Washington needed this game and we needed it as well. Fortunately we got the win. We control our destiny. Hopefully we can continue this in the next four games.

They’re men and they know what they have to do. You can’t watch over these guys and try to control their social lives. Of course, when it comes to the clubhouse and the dugout, if...

We played awfully well, and we played hard. We said we wanted to control the line of scrimmage. We want to be physical. We just believe in being physical, and sometimes that takes over the...

You can’t regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It’s so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.

Don’t be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny.

Sydney, don’t leave Adrian because of me.””It’s more complicated than that,” I said automatically.”It’s really not,” she said. “From everything I’ve seen and heard, you’re just afraid. You’ve always controlled every detail of your life....

Among these temperamentally unhappy campers are “reactant” personalities, who focus on what they often wrongly perceive as others’ attempts to control them. In one experiment, some of these touchy individuals were asked to think of...

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Mindfulness meditation doesn’t change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart’s capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating...

In birds this is a disease of biblical proportions and it is difficult to control in a setting where people depend on poultry as a major source of protein for growing children.

We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.

We’re still in damage-control mode.

From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way....

One year they asked me to be poster boy – for birth control.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can’t control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Ten universal values: (1) Show respect to each other—each person has a special gift; (2) Share what you have—giving makes you richer; (3) Know who you are—you are a reflection on your family; (4) Accept...

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it, ‘all men are created equal, except...

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.

There are still too many people that have let greed remain in control and have yet to succumb to fear. There are too many people calling bottoms all over the place. People are too worried...

We’re trying to?move away from this idea of control, blocking and locking down the Internet. We’re moving toward enabling the Internet by giving users tools to help improve safety.

I suppose…my experience with organized faith of any stripe is somewhat stilted,” Baisyl admitted. ‘As far as my eyes have seen, it’s a conglomeration of power-hungry men who self-appoint themselves the sole dictators of how...

Ben was throwing a heck of a game. He had good stuff and then he’d lose control and then he’d be good again. You can’t try to do too much against him. That’s why a...

I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission to do anything. It’s nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that...

He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely...

Sex is one of those things that’s complete loss of control. You give yourself up, in your most vulnerable state, to another person, and they give themselves to you.

If there was no woman in this world there would be no prophecy