#control

Culture means control over nature. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#culture #means #nature #over

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. ↗

— Paul Getty

#carry #company #control #does #price

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. ↗

— Paul Getty

#control #defy #families #fortunes #heads

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#anorexia #binge #bulimia #control #deny

I'm a control freak. Totally. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#control freak #freak #i #totally

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

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. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#director #lot #money #movie #putting

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#continuing #controlled #defeat #face #humanity

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#control #days #drill #greatest #had

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. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#belong #citizens #control #efficiently #government