If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.
It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.
You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.
There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.
You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.
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.
