Faye Dunaway Quotes

You can't control everything.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

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

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

You can only control so much.

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

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

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

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

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?

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

Some things you can't control.

I can't control how other people are going to react. I can't control what other people are going to say to me.

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

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

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

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

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

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.

What you cannot control, you must accept.