Julia Ormond Quotes

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

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

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

I'm a fatalist.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

You can't control everything.

Some things you can't control.