Top 100 No Control Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.
J'son M. Lee
#4. We have no control over what haunts us. We're helpless to it.
Jill Bialosky
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I had severe control freak tendencies, and when I had no control - I freaked out.
H.M. Ward
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
Jean De La Fontaine
#12. 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
#13. Seek pleasure in work itself as in result you have no control.
Pravin Agarwal
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
Alice Sebold
#19. Standing on the edge with my patients - abiding with them - means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control. I could lose my home, my financial security, my safety. I could lose my mind. Any of us could.
Christine Montross
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Most people simply go through life. They feel that they're making choices in their lives that cause destiny to move in certain ways. I would suggest that they have no control of their lives, all their choices are really made for them.
Frederick Lenz
#23. 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
#24. Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.
Charlie Herrick
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.
Janeane Garofalo
#37. I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
Judi Dench
#38. The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#39. Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.
Thomas Merton
#40. Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we're not proud. We speak about ourselves like we're reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own 'forecasts.
Lauren Handel Zander
#41. Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any external threat would reveal itself in due time and must be dealt with then. But he could not help wondering if they had done
Arthur C. Clarke
#42. We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.
Jessica Zafra
#43. She taught me the pointlessness of wishing for a different past and the futility of worrying about all of the frightening futures over which I had no control.
James R. Doty
#44. 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
#45. Joy and serenity are not slavishly tied to our physiology. We are not programmed neurons over which we have no control. We are collaborators in the generation of our thoughts and emotions.
Jerome Kagan
#46. 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
#47. A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.
Harry Callahan
#48. 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
#49. The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it?
Vicki Forman
#50. 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
#51. Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.
Mickey Rooney
#53. 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
#54. There is no control over memory.
Jean Rhys
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there.
Pegi Young
#60. Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.
Charles F. Glassman
#61. Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.
Wess Roberts
#62. 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
#63. I think I'm lovable. That's the gift God gave me. I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.
Ann B. Davis
#64. Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
Klaus Schwab
#65. 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
#66. I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.
Marcus Brigstocke
#67. 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
#68. I think it's actually harder to watch the meet from the media section. You have no control there.
Dominique Dawes
#69. The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#70. Why worry about things you have no control over?
John Russell
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.
Lenny Abrahamson
#75. My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
Shane MacGowan
#76. 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
#77. When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.
Darren Johnson
#78. 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
#79. The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it's coming to an end. Once you accept there's nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you're now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear.
Jeb Corliss
#80. I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
Foster Friess
#81. Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past,
Charlaine Harris
#82. There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.
Rebecca Hall
#83. When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
Stephen Covey
#84. I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
BeBe Winans
#85. Depression and anxiety are two of the body's first reactions to stockpiles of hurt. Of course, there are organic and biochemical reasons we experience clinical depression and debilitating anxiety - causes over which we have no control - but unrecognized pain and unprocessed hurt can also lead there.
Brene Brown
#86. 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
#87. The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Aaron McGruder
#88. 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
#89. You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
Chuck Palahniuk
#90. She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#91. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
Pete Cashmore
#92. Life was really too short and twisted to hold grudges, especially over something she truly had no control over.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#93. What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
Igor Stravinsky
#94. 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
#95. It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
#96. 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
#97. 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.
Cormac McCarthy
#98. 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
#99. 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
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