Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.
It is only when you fail to control your fears through your thoughts and beliefs that they would start to control you.
You can never control the main outcomes of your life without controlling your mental attitude.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.
The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.
We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.
The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.
When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.
As long as espionage is less expensive than remotely controlling people’s brains, CIA will continue to remotely control people’s brains.
Arthur: You. What the hell was all that? Cobb: I have it under control. Arthur: I'd hate to see it out of control.
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
