I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Create free wallpaper (Make a wallpaper or screensaver out of this quote with your image)

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. - Abraham Lincoln

---

Related Authors
Benjamin Harrison | William McKinley | Woodrow Wilson | Grover Cleveland | Ibrahim Babangida | Uhuru Kenyatta | Alice Munro | Demosthenes |

Related Quotes

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Mary Baker Eddy

Matter Death Illusions

---

Man must first live before he can live abundantly.

Aneurin Bevan

Man Must First Live

---

Follow your heart and don't play to the gallery.

M.I. Abaga

Follow Your heart Play Gallery

---

When life puts you under pressure, remember that pressure cookers cook faster than regular ones.

Reno Omokri

Pressure Life Faster Cook

---

I know I can't change the past. But as the river keep flowing I'd keep on moving on.

Asa

Moving Know Change Past

---

Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!

Vanessa Hudgens

Bad Bad Ones Boy Go

---

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

S. J. Perelman

Main Obligation Amuse Yourself

---

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

Gift Human beings Power Empathy

---

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words.Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

Doris Lessing

For women Integrity Isn't chastity Fidelity

---

When leaders turned those stones into Bread, they prevent the people from throwing those stones onto them.

Shehu Sani

Leaders Stones Bread Prevent

---

Who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

Babatunde Fashola

Benefit Commonwealth Purse Must

---

Conscience is a man's compass.

Vincent van Gogh

Compass Conscience Man

---

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. - Vincent van Gogh quotes