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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Control'

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Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
Jane D. Hull, -
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, Irish Politician (1937-  )
And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.
Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist (1927-  )
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
Michael Ignatieff, Canadian Politician (1947-  )
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author (1954-  )
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
Darrell Issa, American Politician (1953-  )
Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook, American Politician (1950-  )
In being strict, you were able to control.
Joseph Jackson, American Businessman (1929-  )
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
Andrew Jackson, American President (1767-1845)
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LaToya Jackson, American Musician (1956-  )
It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
Janet Jackson, American Musician (1966-  )
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson, American President (1767-1845)
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James, American Philosopher (1842-1910)
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
Etta James, American Musician (1938-  )
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
Eugene Jarvis, American Scientist
Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.
Jam Master Jay, American Musician (1965-2002)
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
Waylon Jennings, American Musician (1937-2002)
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
Daniel Johns, Australian Musician (1979-  )
 
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