Uncontrollable Outcome Quotes

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

You want to do it on your own terms - not to be forced out because your body breaks down. I had to quit because of injury and I was crying for weeks. I used to wake up in the morning and think 'what am I getting up for now?'

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

I feel older than I really am. It's because of the cards I was dealt.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.

I don't want you to go," Sam said. She was upset. "I don't want this to end like this." "You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You just can't control your art in the future.

The government was unable to avert or to control the course of events.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

I am the very slave of circumstance

I can't control what the judges give me.

I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.