Quotes About Outcome

When it's a memory, you already know the outcome so it's easy to think it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and is more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

It's not the hand you're dealt that matters. It's how you play the cards.

Omission or commission—the end result is the same.

net gain or net drain

War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

All feelings are permissible. Help him understand that it's what he DOES with these feelings that determines whether he experiences a negative (unhappy) or positive (happy) outcome. Teach him the Law of Cause and Effect.

So you'll be keeping the Sea Devil, " she said. His light eyes roamed over her, settled for a moment on her breasts. "I'm keeping her. The ship holds a number of interesting memories I wouldn't want to forget." His eyes said he was remembering their numerous encounters-and the final delicious outcome-and a faint smile tugged at his lips.

When you take someone's advice, let her know it and how it worked out.

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.

I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won.

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don't make a few bad choices, the story will be terribly boring. If you do everything right and you're always good, the story will be very short.

Isn't that the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.

Sam blew out 10 candles and in the distance Mary Lou Retton received a perfect 10 on her floor routine. And he almost felt like he, by blowing out the 10 candles at the precise moment that he had, had been what caused her to get the perfect 10. He fanaticized that the universe was a Rube Goldberg machine. If he had blown out only 9 candles, maybe the Romanian girl would have won instead.

We can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. The Russian girls could have won, or they could have gotten jet-lagged and choked." Anna shrugged. "And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

If it doesn't work, all we've lost is a lot of time and money." Sam laughed. "Let's do this," he said.

And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the

And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen

He pats you on the shoulder. "We're lucky," he said. "We got to have this time, and we didn't ruin anyone's life in the process. It doesn't feel like it right now, but one day, you'll look back and think this was a very good outcome." An outcome, you think. When I was young, I had this affair, and wow, what an outcome!

Endings can be happy or sad, I don't care anymore as long as it's earned.

But the point is not to spin the narrative; that defeats the purpose, in some way, of story itself. You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

Ramsay Bolton: If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Tyrion Lannister: It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.