#control

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing. ↗

— Warren Bennis

#being #control #cutting #doing #end

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#commitment #controlled #derive #economy #genuinely

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. ↗

— Mark Twain

#conduct #control #controls #greater #laws

It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control. ↗

— Cilla Black

#control #had #i #like #lot

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#control #film #film school #films #i

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films. ↗

— Ted Demme

#control #developed #film #films #good

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it? ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#capable #conquering #control #country #doubt

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#controlling #incapable #iraq

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#citizens #control #dangerous #education #federal

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#back #come #control #different #different things