Lauren Bacall Quotes

You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.

Change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.

You can't control everything.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

People might think I'm a bit more intimidating than I am.

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

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

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

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 only control so much.

I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.

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

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

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