Maintaining control quotes:

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  • When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control. -- Amy Chua
  • Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control. -- Dennis Haysbert
  • By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. -- Barbara Amiel
  • No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are. -- Alexis Wright
  • Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me. -- Noah Baumbach
  • Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance. -- David Icke
  • Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. -- Daniel Webster
  • We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs. -- Jared Diamond
  • Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country. -- Joe Slovo
  • People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it. -- Jasmine Guy
  • Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control. -- John Hume
  • The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. -- Benjamin Tucker
  • The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head. -- A. R. Rahman
  • While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net. -- Vint Cerf
  • The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions. -- Bernardo Houssay
  • I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity. -- Lusia Strus
  • A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits. -- Gretchen Rubin
  • The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control. -- Howard Rheingold
  • Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
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