Uncontrollable Forces Quotes

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

Nobody knows the pulse of the audience. By the grace of God, things are working for me.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

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.

The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

When cultural movements happen, it's so beyond your control.

One thing you can say in favor of the globalization system is that it doesn’t discriminate—it leaves both the weak and the powerful feeling a loss of control and under the thumb of elected and at times uncontrollable forces.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.