Alexander Gustafsson Quotes

Well, there are a lot of things outside our control - outside my control. And this is true with anybody's life: You try to keep the train on a certain track, and then there are a lot of moving parts that you can't control. And that tends to make you nervous.

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

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

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

There is no armor against fate.

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

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

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

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

A merciless fate threw me into this maelstrom … the gale of the world carried me away.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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

Fate has many faces.

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.

Some things you can't control.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

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