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

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I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
Marie Osmond, American Musician (1959-  )
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
Carre Otis, American Model (1968-  )
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis, American Lawyer (1725-1783)
What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control.
Butch Otter, American Politician (1942-  )
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.
Brian De Palma, American Director (1940-  )
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress (1972-  )
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Orhan Pamuk, Novelist (1952-  )
Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
Molly Parker, Canadian Actress (1972-  )
For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.
Paul Parker, English Athlete (1964-  )
I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.
Paul Parker, English Athlete (1964-  )
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher (1623-1662)
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI, Italian Clergyman (1897-1978)
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen, American Comedian (1927-  )
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
Ivan Pavlov, Russian Psychologist (1849-1936)
We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.
Tim Pawlenty, American Politician (1960-  )
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
Richard Perle, American Public Servant (1941-  )
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
Michelle Pfeiffer, American Actress (1958-  )
But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
Ryan Phillippe, American Actor (1974-  )
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
River Phoenix, American Actor (1970-1993)
The Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act of 2005 is bipartisan legislation directing funding and promoting education and research toward the goal of preventing, treating and curing arthritis.
Charles W. Pickering, American Judge (1937-  )
 
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