Jimmy Haynes Quotes

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

It's better to accept destiny.

You can't. You just have to.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

You can't break what's broken already.

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.