We Have No Control Quotes

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

Ana E Ross

#2. We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

Will.i.am

#3. 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

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

Jill Bialosky

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Jessica Zafra

#9. 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

#10. Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. In recent years ... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

Jim Garrison

#12. It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated - hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.

Toni Morrison

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

Jody Hedlund

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

Freeman Dyson

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Pete Cashmore

#21. We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Daniel Kahneman

#22. 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

#23. Life is unpredictable.
We can not tell will happen in a minute.
We have no control of tomorrow and it's details.
Live a careful life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no control, rather we define ourselves by the choices we make, moment by moment, situation by situation. All it takes is an act of will to be the best that we can be.

Laurence Overmire

#25. We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.

Jalen Rose

#26. When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

William Glasser

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

Paulo Coelho

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

Joy Fielding

#31. 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

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

Betty Parsons

#33. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

Brene Brown

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. We have no control over outcomes, but we can control the process. Of course, outcomes matter, but by focusing our attention on process, we maximize our chances of good outcomes.

Michael Mauboussin

#37. It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation ... all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

Theodore Dreiser

#38. Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. We have no control of the laws of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

Ali Babacan

#41. Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

Linda Thompson

#42. 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

#43. No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.

Jim Rohn

#44. To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference.

Albert J. Bernstein

#45. The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#46. 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

#47. Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

Janice Hahn

#48. I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we have no mechanism to do it,' I was told.

Neil Abercrombie

#49. No matter how omnipotent we think we are, we have damn little power to control our destinies.

Cynthia Freeman

#50. Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

Najib Razak

#51. We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#52. If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

Patty Murray

#53. 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

#54. Cancer start when cell in the body being to grow out of control.Cells in nearly any part of the body can become cancer, and can spread to other areas of the body.So you have no need to worried about kidney cancer because we provide the best treatment of Kidney Cancer in Los Angeles.

Cancercenter

#55. No one else "makes" us do anything. They can't make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#56. 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

#57. Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive - not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.

Ann D. Clark

#58. 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

#59. I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

Taraji P. Henson

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

Colleen Hoover

#61. 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

#62. How did it happen that in the one species whose success depends above all on cooperation, individuals who are supposedly less cooperative (men) control individuals who are supposedly more cooperative (women)? At present, we have no good answer.

Yuval Noah Harari

#63. When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

George O'Neil

#64. No matter what the power source is, a sinusoidal pattern will always remain the same. Similarly, our lives have a certain pattern and that's of happiness and sorrow. We feel that we are in control of things and everything is going according to plan but life is again following a pattern.

Ackshat Deoli

#65. 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

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

Aaron McGruder

#67. The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

B.F. Skinner

#68. 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

#69. To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

Ariel Sharon

#70. We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.

Richard Bach

#71. We have on earth exactly the amount of time that has been allotted to us, no more and no less. We really have precious little control.

Chris Bohjalian

#72. The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

Robert H. Jackson

#73. We cannot be held responsible for what our families do, especially when we have no way to control them.

Robin LaFevers

#74. I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

Nick Vujicic

#75. The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.

Michael Moore

#76. I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

John F. Kennedy

#77. Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Chris Martin

#78. What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

Alexis Ohanian

#79. No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

Stanley Hauerwas

#80. We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#81. We don't choose our freaks, they choose us ... We may not understand why we freak on a particular food or band or sports team. We may have no conscious control over out allegiances, But they arise from our most scared fears and desires and, as such, they represent the truest expression of ourselves.

Steve Almond

#82. Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

Jack White

#83. I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

Mary J. Blige

#84. There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States.

Jan C. Ting

#85. If the future's looking dark,
We're the ones who have to shine.
If there's no one in control,
We're the ones who draw the line.
Though we live in trying times,
We're the ones who have to try.
And we know that time has wings,
So we're the ones who have to fly.

Neil Peart

#86. Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.

Jason Silva

#87. We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.

John Shelby Spong

#88. And they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings with no self-control is somehow acceptable. We

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#89. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

Sam Harris

#90. 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

#91. Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

Oliver Stone

#92. Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

Barry N. Malzberg

#93. I think it is more tha6 the sea is a reminder of how little control we have over our own lives no matter how carefully we try to plan and order them. Everything changes in ways we least expect, and everything is frighteningly vast. We are so small.

Mary Balogh

#94. 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

#95. We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

Jackson Browne

#96. The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here.

Tom Frieden

#97. I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what's right for me except me. I'm not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

Jennifer Hudson

#98. There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to an end because we control our reproduction, and in many areas we have started to do so, or we'll end up with a high death rate. You have to take a personal moral stand on this.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#99. We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

Viktor E. Frankl

#100. I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

Jeb Bush