Quotes About Outcome

Risks aren't risks when the consequences are no worse than your regular life.

All things turn out ill, in the end. But that is the ill nature of things, to end.

You can't break eggs without making an omelet, said Butler sententiously.

Whims so often end in bankruptcy.

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.

catch me with an unexpected result

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action.

Ogni volta che agiamo, pur con le migliori intenzioni, ogni volta che interferiamo con le cose del mondo, rischiamo di provocare un disastro che forse non dipende da noi, ma che non si verificherebbe senza il nostro intervento.

Quando agimos, mesmo com a melhor das intenções, quando interferimos com o mundo, arriscamos sempre um desastre, que poderá não sair da nossa mão, mas que não aconteceria sem a nossa intervenção.

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

As a player you can't be too worried if you take a risk and whether it's not going to come off.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

A film will be a hit or a flop in spite of my worrying about it.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

I'm not ashamed of any work I do. You can't decide a film's fate before its release. There's no surety that your new films will be better or worse than your previous ones. You can only hope to surpass your efforts.

At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That's the test.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.