Quotes About Outcome

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they 'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

When something happens, something else always happens.

The third time is not always the charm.

You poked the hornet's nest," I said flatly. "Guess so." "And how did that work out for you?" Ben asked. "Found the hornets," he answered, grinning sleepily.

There aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.

They aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

But petting a fretful puppy can actually create exactly the outcome you don't want—a puppy that always gets upset whenever she is inside a car or her kennel.

I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality, as if the play yard, with its black asphalt floor and its white base lines, were my entire world now, as if all the previous years of my life had led me somehow to this one ball game, and all the future years of my life would depend upon its outcome. I stood there for a moment, holding the glasses in my hand and feeling frightened. Then I took a deep breath, and the feeling passed. It's only a ball game, I told myself. What's a ball game?

When karma lands, it lands hard.

If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.

The guys who play in midfield and up front are the ones who decide games.

I hope 'Tum Mile' works in the same way as 'Jannat' or else I will be blamed if it does not do well.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

Es gibt ja nur Gescheitertes. In dem wir wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, kommen wir vorwärts und wir müssen in jeder Sache und in allem und in jedem immer wieder wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, wenn wir noch schon sehr früh zugrunde gehen wollen, was tatsächlich nicht die Absicht sein kann, mit welcher wir da sind.

The observed outcome may be one that everybody prefers, it may be one that nobody prefers, or it may be one that some prefer and others deplore.

Done because we are too many.

The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.