My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.