Circumstances Beyond My Control Quotes

#1. Now, please understand that I didn't want to do any of this crap. None of these choices were mine. Like kids across the nation I was caught in circumstances beyond my control, and I felt that my choices were bad, worse, and worst.

Mark Garrison

#2. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#3. I don't think we get exempt from the pain because we live good lives. Some circumstances we can't control - in fact, most are truly beyond our abilities. Instead maybe it's how we get made new; it's one of the only times we slow down enough to listen and receive grace, real grace.

Katherine Reay

#4. I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.

Lesley Nicol

#5. Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Daniel Dennett

#6. You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn't determine who you are. You must all realize what you're worth on your own.

Koushun Takami

#8. The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

Chinua Achebe

#9. Why doesn't Santa just park the god-damn sleigh in the driveway like a normal guest? (Your Temporary Santa)

David Levithan

#10. 3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

Ang Lee

#11. Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#12. Sometimes I wish I never had to sleep. Sometimes I think that if I stay very, very still, if I never move at all, things will change. I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain. Sometimes I won't move for hours. I will not move an inch. If time stands still nothing can go wrong.

Tahereh Mafi

#13. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#14. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.

Archibald Marwizi

#15. we will always be at the mercy of the world and of circumstances beyond our control.

Chaya Rao

#16. The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#17. I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#18. Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Dickens

#19. Men can dig wells, but they can't create water.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. I think it would be prudent to advise you that due to extraordinary circumstances beyond our control, the original plan we had for participating in and extending the duration of the IPT Main Event has been drastically altered, specifically as it pertains to certain individuals competing -

Elle Lothlorien

#21. if you continue allowing external circumstances to dictate how you feel, you'll always be at the mercy of the situations in your life that are completely beyond your control.

Dana Wilde

#22. As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

William James

#23. Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.

Daniel Okrent

#24. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Benjamin Disraeli

#25. My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#26. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick