Control quotes

“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
Nicole Kidman

“Just make sure you don’t bury it all inside and explode later. Probably at me.”
Peter Macdissi - Wally

“- Stella: You're the kind of guy that ignores the rules because it makes you feel in control. Am I right?
- Will: You're not wrong.”
Haley Lu Richardson - Stella
Cole Sprouse - Will

“Formulas are a complete and utter waste of time.”
Rami Malek - Freddie Mercury

“The truth sinks in that no matter what justification you're selling yourself, this is not about terrorism. Terrorism is the excuse. This is about economic and social control. And the only thing you're really protecting is the supremacy of your government.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Edward Snowden

“A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.”
Rodolfo Valentino

“Secrecy is security and security is victory.”
Rhys Ifans - Corbin O'Brian

“The kind of control you're attempting simply is... it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but... well, there it is.”

Jeff Goldblum - Malcolm

“Sometimes it's important to give people the illusion of being in control.”
James Gandolfini - Tony Soprano

“When you’re losing control of your entire life, it helps to focus on what you’re good at.”
Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan

“ If you devote your whole life to completely avoiding something you like, then that thing still controls your life and you've never learned any discipline at all.”
Trey Parker - Stan Marsh

“I can't completely cage what's inside of me, or when it bursts out, it comes for blood. Better to feed it just enough to keep it in check, keep it on a leash, take it for a walk, make sure it knows the rules.”
Penn Badgley - Joe Goldberg

“I find people who are rude usually feel powerless in their own lives. Terrified of not being in control.”
Rachael Harris - Linda Martin

“We can’t control what happens to us, only how it affects us and the choices we make.”
Tricia Helfer - Charlotte

“How many times have we heard: 'it's simple'. Nothing is simple. We live in a world where nothing is simple. Each day, just when we think we have a handle on things, suddenly some new element is introduced and everything is complicated once again.”
Catherine E. Coulson - Log Lady

“Good dragons under the control of bad people do bad things.”
Cate Blanchett - Valka

“Manipulation. Domination. Control. These are the three watchwords of violent serial offenders.”
John E. Douglas

“Because someday, something will go wrong. It could cost you your life or something worse. And on that day what you can’t be thinking is that you are to be blamed for something you couldn’t control. That’s life. Enjoy it, until the party is over.”
Pedro Alonso - Berlín

“There are moments in life we should just be able to have a damn remote control, so you could pause it. Even if just for five minutes. But sometimes things happen with irreverent obscenity and there’s nothing you can do to help it.”
Úrsula Corberó - Tokio

“It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it, I can dominate it. And it’s predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”

Anya Taylor-Joy - Beth Harmon

“Did you know that there's fluoride in the water that the government uses to control our minds?”
Shahadi Wright Joseph - Zora Wilson

“I don't know what's happening to me. When I lose control, things happen, bad things to people I love.”
Sophie Turner - Jean Grey

“- Deke Slayton: Jan, you have to trust us. We've got this under control.
- Janet Armstrong: No, you don't. All these protocols and procedures to make it seem like you have it under control. But you're a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood! You don't have anything under control!”
Kyle Chandler - Deke Slayton
Claire Foy - Janet Armstrong

“Einstein was right. We didn't evolve out of random chance. There is a higher power controlling all of this. My ancestors believed in a God of the earth, a God who seeks revenge for the wrongs done to the earth. This is what's happened.”

Ned Romero - Frank Redbear

“Whoever controls the high ground of space controls the world. The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later, the British Empire was dominant because they had ships. In the Air Stage, we were powerful because we had the airplane. And now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. Pretty soon they'll...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donald Moffat - Lyndon B. Johnson