Quotes About Outcome

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

When NBC switched the series in September to Tuesday nights opposite 'Maude' it died. 'Bonanza' had become too familiar with a Sunday audience. Tuesday just wasn't the day for it.

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

I always looked across the tunnel in Old Firm games and fancied our chances but there's a big difference between that and knowing you're going to win. There's so many things can happen in an Old Firm game.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of a movie as it should have been.

The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

Your intention going in is to do the best you can. You go in and do your work, day to day, the best you can. But it's entirely up to the director and the editor and the producers and the studio how it turns out.

If I'm caught off guard or I'm not in a great mood, or if I'm feeling down or if I'm in my head and somebody comes up to me and I can't match the energy, I just have to think, 'Well, I did my job, which was to do the show or release the album or be in the TV show or write the joke. Beyond that, it's kind of a hit or miss what happens between us.'

Whether it's a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what's driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.