Quotes About Outcome

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

During the season, there are all types of games - ones where you deserve more than you get and ones where you get more than you deserve.

I don't care how ugly the stats look. If we're out on top, that's all I care about.

At the end, what do you prefer? To play beautifully and stay in the same place, the round of 16, or play ugly and reach a semifinal?

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

I think that, whether you liked the outcome or not, the reasons for doing 'Ultimatum' were necessary. The Ultimate Universe had become too much like the regular Marvel Universe, and that was certainly not a good thing for the line.

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don't matter much if your team ends up on the losing side.

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.