Carrie Coon Quotes

Some things you can't control.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

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.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

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.

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

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.

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 the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

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

You can't control everything.

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

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

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.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

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.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

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

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

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