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the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Quotations regarding 'Control'

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In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
Max von Sydow, Swedish Actor (1929-  )
To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.
Tom Tancredo, American Politician (1945-  )
We can control our borders, we just choose not too.
Tom Tancredo, American Politician (1945-  )
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
Ellen Tauscher, American Politician (1951-  )
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
Noah Taylor, Australian Actor (1969-  )
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, -
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney, -
I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.
Neil Tennant, English Musician (1954-  )
I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat.
Bill Terry, American Athlete (1898-1989)
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
Randall Terry, American Celebrity
I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
Twyla Tharp, American Dancer (1941-  )
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
Charlize Theron, South African Actress (1975-  )
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas, English Scientist (1913-1993)
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson, American Philosopher (1938-  )
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson, American Philosopher (1938-  )
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
John Thorn, American Historian (1947-  )
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
John Thorn, American Historian (1947-  )
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
Meg Tilly, American Actress (1960-  )
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist (1805-1859)
Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
Hideki Tojo, Japanese Soldier (1884-1948)
 
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