Uncontrollability Quotes

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

There is no elimination of all risks.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

The world is very odd we see. We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we can all agree, God won’t and we can’t mend it.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

There's only so much you can control in life.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.