Maggie Q Quotes

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

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

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

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

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

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

Childhood can be hell. One reason … is that as a child you have no power.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

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

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.

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

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

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.

Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.

We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.