Controlling Quotes

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.