Lauren Oliver Quotes

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

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

They kind of took it out of our hands. We're still able to deal with him on an emotional level.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

India's Finance Ministry's ... feet might be in India, but it's head is in Washington.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

Sometimes, it seems like the whole world has already set my life out for me.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

Well certainly not having any choice - having your entire life dictated by others.

I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice.

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.