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Quotes About Outcome

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.
~ Cecil Parkinson
We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
~ E. Lockhart
I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
~ Gore Vidal
And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.
~ Lauryn Hill
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
~ Dave Eggers
The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.
~ Sonya Sones
You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.
~ Dan Greenburg
What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.
~ Rob Bell
The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.
~ Robert Schwentke
It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.
~ Chris Hegedus
The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.
~ Dani Levy
How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.
~ Eric Mangini
The manner in which we gamble defines the stakes. Win or lose, it shall be absolute.' The
~ Steven Erikson
In success we shall find seeds of despair
~ Steven Erikson
But it all turned out for the best, sir, didn't it?' 'Yup. But let's not let success undermine the patronizing certainty of our convictions.
~ Steven Erikson
He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable outcome The numbers lead a dance I know that the spades Are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds Mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart
~ Sting
Before the year was out, she would change the known world, but it would look as if others' hands were responsible.
~ Storm Constantine
The destiny of the land was sealed, but as yet there was no way of knowing what direction that would take.
~ Storm Constantine
Ah, Khaster, do you not see? It is up to you entirely how you react to this. That is your control over the outcome.
~ Storm Constantine
If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?
~ Stuart Harris
Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.
~ Stuart Land
If you know haw a book is going to end, would you read it in the first place?" Kit asked herself later, as she stood in the bathroom, an electric toothbrush winding its way around her mouth. "Do you stop reading a book because you don't want to watch the characters you like turn out to be unlikable, or the ones with which you identify denied the happy ending you believe they deserve?
~ Sue Halpern