Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

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.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.

We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

You're scared of what you can't control

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.