Some Things Are Beyond Our Control Quotes

#1. I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.

Don Lemon

#2. I like to be in control. I like to call the shots. I like to be obeyed unconditionally. And almost all of the girls who make it beyond the first appointment do that, and do it well.

J.A. Huss

#3. Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.

John C. Calhoun

#4. Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus." "Let us not make light of the rectally challenged." Niko disposed of the mug with disdain, wiping his hand thoroughly on a towel afterward. "The condition is no doubt congenital. Completely beyond his control.

Rob Thurman

#5. I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

Maria Shriver

#6. Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Barton Gellman

#7. He had done the right thing and that was what counted. That was the best you could do in life. How others took it was beyond his control.

Douglas Preston

#8. Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.-RVM

R.v.m.

#9. 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

#10. There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

Fred Rogers

#11. So grieve what you hadto do. Mourn it, but never, ever blame yourself for things that are beyond your control.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. However, the ability to control attention is not simply a measure of intelligence; measures of efficiency in the control of attention predict performance of air traffic controllers and of Israeli Air Force pilots beyond the effects of intelligence.

Daniel Kahneman

#13. The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Isaiah Berlin

#14. I like to think that we're not defined by what happens to us ... because so many times they're beyond our control. I like to think that we're defined by our choices and our decisions.

Elizabeth Smart

#15. I believe that you get to write part of the script of your life, and some of it is written by forces beyond your control.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#16. She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.

Tawni O'Dell

#17. A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#18. The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

Morena Baccarin

#19. Maybe the kid gravitated to Zeb for the same reason children like dinosaurs: when feeling abandoned in a world of forces beyond your control, it's comforting to have a huge, scaly beast who is your friend.

Margaret Atwood

#20. It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Barbara Sher

#21. Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.

Starhawk

#22. It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

Dick Van Dyke

#23. Some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.

Joan Didion

#24. Impatience is really a condition for people with control issues; people become impatient, and angry, when they find themselves in any situation beyond their control.

Zane

#25. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

Chaka Khan

#26. It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#27. The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

#28. Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

Sylvia Boorstein

#29. This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend!
It doth control and also doth obey?
And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,
'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self?
What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r!
Aye: frailty, thy name
belike
is Force.

Ian Doescher

#30. 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

#31. The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#32. Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

Andrew Flintoff