My mom raised me to never have anything control me.
I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.
Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world
Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.
You can't control what you can't measure
Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.
Who can control his fate?
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.
The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.