John Grant Quotes

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

You can't control everything that comes to you.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

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.

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

You can't control everything.

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

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

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.

Some things you can't control.

I can't control how other people are going to react. I can't control what other people are going to say to me.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

You can only control so much.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

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

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

There are some things in the world we can't change.