No Control Over Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

Pete Cashmore

#5. Life was really too short and twisted to hold grudges, especially over something she truly had no control over.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Dean Koontz

#7. If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.

Tony McCoy

#8. I have control over every single frame on Blu-ray. If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer. Originally, there was some fluctuation with the prints. If you made a thousand, or a few thousand prints, there is no control over any of that. But now I can make a master using the digital process.

William Friedkin

#9. Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.

Auliq Ice

#10. There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

Shia Labeouf

#11. In life, we have no control over the storms that we encounter. It's normal to feel devastated and sad, but to continue being sad is already our choice.

Kcat Yarza

#12. A woman has no control over herself.

Martin Luther

#13. Why worry about things you have no control over?

John Russell

#14. The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Aaron McGruder

#15. You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#16. There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

Rebecca Hall

#17. Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past,

Charlaine Harris

#18. I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

Foster Friess

#19. 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

#20. I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.

Alison Goldfrapp

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

Shane MacGowan

#22. I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

Kitty Kelley

#23. 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

#24. Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Claire Danes

#25. Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

Charlie Hunnam

#26. This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. People everywhere are looking at an image of me, right now, and I have absolutely no control over it. The blue hair!! I have to get rid of this blue hair.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#28. You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

Tim Gunn

#29. We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present.

Jody Hedlund

#30. Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Alan Rickman

#31. We have no control over where we come from, only where we end up.

Ana E Ross

#32. Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

Quentin Tarantino

#33. For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

Jason Calacanis

#34. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Paul Mooney

#35. I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#36. You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

Michael B. Jordan

#37. I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.

Wes Craven

#38. The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.

David Klass

#39. What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.

Twiggy

#40. was one of those awful moments where you have no control over your reaction, when the pain is too exposed to hide.

Jessica Knoll

#41. 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

#42. 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. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Alan Rickman

#43. You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

David Klass

#44. I'm worried that feelings are the one thing in our lives that we have absolutely no control over.

Colleen Hoover

#45. One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#46. 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

#47. The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#48. I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

Beth Ditto

#49. When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.

Mickey Drexler

#50. My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.

Geddy Lee

#51. What I have in me ... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive ... it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

Bette Midler

#52. I turn toward the window beside me because unlike Victor, I have absolutely no control over the smile on my face, and I can't risk letting him see it. ~~~~

J.A. Redmerski

#53. I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.

Kathleen Hanna

#54. 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

#55. There is no control over memory.

Jean Rhys

#56. In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Rahul Dravid

#57. Whilst I have no control over when or where that will be (death) ~ what I do have control over is the way I choose to live whilst my body is working well and my mind is capable of great things.

Nina Montgomery

#58. Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

William Eckhardt

#59. The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.

Peter L. Bernstein

#60. We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

Jessica Zafra

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

Judi Dench

#62. There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Toby Jones

#63. That morning we thanked the men who had helped bury Saidu. "You will always know where he is laid," one of the men said. I nodded in agreement, but I know that the chances of coming back to the village were slim, as we had no control over our future. We know only how to survive.

Ishmael Beah

#64. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.

Mickey Rivers

#65. 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

#66. What determined the outcome of a life? A series of random events you had no control over, or did some cosmic gravity pull everything in the direction it was predestined to go?

Jo Nesbo

#67. To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

Karen Thompson Walker

#68. When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

William Friedkin

#69. 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

#70. I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

Amanda McBroom

#71. Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Debra Messing

#72. As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.

Orlando Bloom

#73. When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

Don Piper

#74. That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from. And that, for me, was very bad news indeed.

Matt Haig

#75. 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

#76. 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 Jacobs

#77. 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

#78. Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

Megan Fox

#79. I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.

Shonda Rhimes

#80. How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

Rob Bell

#81. 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

#82. There are more things to worry about in the world than a messed-up audition. It's out of your hands. So often, it's not down to acting abilities but something an actor has no control over. So go in, be prepared, do your job, and go and enjoy the rest of your day.

Gregg Sulkin

#83. There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over ... The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.

Eddy Merckx

#84. We have no control over what haunts us. We're helpless to it.

Jill Bialosky

#85. It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

Jack White

#86. You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

R.L. Stine

#87. We are all prisoners of the sands of time, and we have no control over them.

Paulo Coelho

#88. I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

Lenny Wilkens

#89. To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

William Glasser

#90. Life chucks a bunch of stuff at us, stuff we have no control over, but we can decide how to handle it all. We shape our lives with the choices we make.

Cathy Cassidy

#91. There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

Betty Parsons

#92. Accept that things happen. It may not be for a reason, and you may have no control over it, but the first step to getting through it is accepting what it is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#93. Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

Sol LeWitt

#94. For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

Rob Roberge

#95. 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

#96. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#97. I don't answer, watching the leaves twirl in the wind across the yard, the hood of the car, wherever the breeze forces them to go. They have no control over their path in life.

Jessica Sorensen

#98. Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

Mike Gordon

#99. Those flawed in their nature have no control over themselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#100. You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

John C. Maxwell