All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions...

We can decide what to make of our season. It’s under our control.

It can make the difference between a problem that spins out of control and one that’s nipped in the bud.

You can’t retire to weakness — you’ve got to learn to control strength.

I can’t even think that far ahead, because I can’t control what happens, and there are a lot of things that can happen. If it works out that way, that would be terrific. If it...

bringing it under control as we speak.

There is a limit for everything. You can’t just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it’s light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that...

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don’t like it, you...

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are...

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

Many of the factors that can put our brain health at risk are things we can modify and control. This article points to the possibility that healthier living can significantly contribute to reducing the numbers...

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.

We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I’ve heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can’t control it,...

I knew Amanda was out (in the first quarter), and I had to take control a bit and just be a good leader. I wanted to make good decisions so my teammates could follow, and...

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

They did what we asked them to do. We had to get off to a good start and control the tempo. And we were able to hit those key free throws down the stretch.

I try to take control out there. If someone’s losing their temper, I try to get them back in line and focused back on the game instead of what the fans are hollering or what...

John Hoch really took control for us today. He’s one of our senior leaders and he might have had his best overall game. He did a lot of good things. He not only scored but...

You can’t control those things. When they happen, it’s great, but if you put too much emphasis on that, you lose track of what you’re supposed to be doing and the work itself.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

To state that the drugs are not suitable for routine influenza control is entirely inappropriate, is inconsistent with regulatory opinions worldwide and is not supported by the data.

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: ‘Do not get angry.’ He is strong who can withhold anger.

In most languages, ‘control’ is the first synonym for the word ‘manage.’ Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

We came out and took control of the game pretty quickly. We made them work in their own end and had a good pace most of the game.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the...

His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.

You definitely can’t forget everything that happened in your past. But you can place some positive interpretations on them, so that they don’t control your present and future emotions and feelings.

In being strict, you were able to control.

I don’t approve of any new tax cuts until we can control our spending and address these deficits,

If the public decides they’re not in favor of fertility control, we have only one option left – gathers, … Natural controls aren’t enough to impact the herd.

I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I...

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and...

That’s something we can’t control. Columbus had one of the best records in the league the second half of the season. We feel good about what we accomplished during the regular season. Now everything counts,...

Another typical outstanding game for her. Team-wise, we played defense pretty well. We really took control of our own errors. We kept control of the ball.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

We knew we had to slow the game down and control the boards and we did that. Tonight we made a game out of it from the first minute. We’re disappointed.

The winds have died down substantially and that’s going to be a big advantage for us in getting control. With the weather changing, we should start to see the containment numbers go up.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

We’re not out of it by any means, but we don’t have total control now like we would have if we had beaten Mount Vernon. For all practical purposes, if we lose another, it’s over....

Things are completely out of control.

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a...

We got it tight there a couple times, kind of left our feet, got a little out of control. But having said that, we got a decent look at a 3-point shot to tie the...

I believe in local control of education.

We decided to take control of the game. We weren’t going to let the officials dictate the game, we weren’t going to let (St. Thomas More) push us around. We just were going to go...

Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it’s much more important for another person to discover his or her own gifts and shortcomings–the patient person doesn’t feel a need...

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It’s dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and...

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that’s not freedom! That’s...

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.