#controls

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#balanced #bipartisan #commission #controls #debt

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#controls #feelings #much #reason #rule

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#completely #controls #corporate #current #everyone

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities. ↗

— Jim Henson

#character #complicated #controls #could #days

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. ↗

— James J. Hill

#commercial #controls #discover #get #global

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

#controls #external #govern #government #greatest

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ↗

— George Orwell

#future #past #present #who

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#adjustment #back #because #book #challenging

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#both #chaos #constant #controls #his

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#himself #mastered #may #mightier #others