No Control Quotes

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.
- Edward Abbey

That's the thing about a human life- There's no control group, no way to ever know how many of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over..
- Sarah Addison Allen

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.
- William Shatner

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
- Steve Maraboli

I really had no control over my cat. Hell, who actually had control over any cat?
- P C Cast

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.
- Melissa Bean

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people.
By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.
- Toba Beta

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
- Linda Blair

I should live my life on bended knee
If I can't control my destiny
You've gotta have a scheme
You've gotta have a plan
In the world of today, for tomorrow's man
No control
- David Bowie

When we look to God as provider, we are surrendering our independence and trusting someone else to meet our needs, over which we have no control. Letting go of our 'dependence on independence' and letting someone else take control goes against natural human instinct. We need to fight the urge to take over and just let God be God, because He can provide for us better than we can.
- Corallie Buchanan

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
- Albert Einstein

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Rhonda Byrne

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
- Rose Byrne

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
- Neve Campbell

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
- Jonathan Coe

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.
- David Levithan

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it's over.
There is no safe. There is no control.
- Susane Colasanti

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.
- Michael Connelly

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
- Macaulay Culkin

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.
- Richard Curtis

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.
- Amanda Seyfried

Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.
- Kurt Vonnegut

In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
- John Green

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
- John Green

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
- Judi Dench

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
- Judi Dench

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
- Milan Kundera

We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
- Milan Kundera

so the story goes but theres something
you should know
before i walk away and i blow the ending
i never want to be without you oh no here i go now you know what i feel about you
theres no running
must have been wrong to doubt you
oh there i go no control and i'm fallen so now you know
- Hilary Duff

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
- Wayne Dyer

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
- Arthur Eddington

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

I notice that, as the wedding date approaches, some doors are opening and others are closing. I have no control.
- Suzanne Finnamore

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.
- Jonathan Franzen

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
- William Glasser

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
- William Glasser

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.
- William Glasser

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.
- Mike Gordon

A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.
- Jenny Han

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
- Aleksandar Hemon

Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.
- Lauren Henderson

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?
- Nick Hornby

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.
- Enrique Iglesias

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

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

When you choose not to take action on something because you realize you have no control, this is letting go.
- Darren L Johnson

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.
- Darren L Johnson

That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
- Daniel Keyes

This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of my mind that I have no control over. Its image would reappear in all its wanton cruelty for the rest of my life, particularly when I was least prepared for it.
- Dennis Lehane

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
- John Walker Lindh

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
- Shane Macgowan

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.
- Cormac Mccarthy

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
- Dave Matthews

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
- Aaron Mcgruder

Reporters can't douse flames or soothe burns. They have no control over the horrors they witness. But if they can overcome fear and physical obstacles and wrestle the monster to the page before the sun comes up, it's a victory -- not just for the newspaper staff but for all those sleeping soundly who will find the facts at their fingertips and all those victims whose suffering won't go unnoticed.
- Sue Merrell

Hope is what one relies on when one has no control of one's fate. We, my dear, have nothing in common with those who rely on hope, Thaddeus proclaimed.
- Mayandree Michel

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change.
- Christopher Paolini

A weak person has no control over their anger...A stronger person has the strength to contain it.
- Timothy Pina

I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE.
EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT.
- Alexandra Potter

I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.
- Vincent Price

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?
- Mike Quade

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
- Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
- Alan Rickman

I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
- Lisa See

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.
- Rebecca Stead

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

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.
- Jeannette Walls

There's something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn't stop. There is no controlling itlove does what it wants when it wants.
- H M Ward

I had severe control freak tendencies, and when I had no controlI freaked out.
- H M Ward

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.
- Emma Watson

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.
- Gloria Whelan

I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.
- Lenny Wilkens

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
- Chauncey Wright

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
- Zhang Yimou

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.
- Rick Yune

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.
- Muhammad Yunus

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.
- Jessica Zafra