Michael J. Fox Quotes

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

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.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

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

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?

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

Yes, it feels great to plan your life when you believe everything can turn out fine. But what about when you're shown, again and again, how little control you have over anything? No matter what I do to try to fix my future, it doesn't work.

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

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

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

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

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

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

I'm scared about every dollar that comes into my business. I'm scared about what that means in Obamacare, in taxes. Every single thing that is happening to me is out of my control.

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.

Sometimes I want to control things more than I'm able to.

There's a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I'm just lost in the world. But there's a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.

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

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