Quotes About Outcome

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Since the worst comes to the worst.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.

Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to war. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: we have to abide their outcome in the dark. And when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our own hands.

as any roulette player can tell you, past performance has no bearing on future random outcome. So

They flipped the coin. Nathan chose tails. It came up heads. "How about best two out of three?" Nathan asked the ref. The ref curled his lip and said, "What are you talking about? No." Nathan said, "You can't blame a guy for trying.

A win doesn't always come exactly how you want it to, but it's a win nonetheless. And anyone who doesn't think so, I don't even know what to tell them.

What you put in, you usually get out. If you are not good enough on the day, fine, but if you put in everything you have, you usually get a decent result. When you lose, it motivates you to go again, not dwell on the past.

If the film is a hit, people talk about the hard work, but if it fails, they may not notice, but I give my best for all films.

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

If a gig goes badly, my main worry is, 'Will these people come back?' Because that will affect my ability to pay the mortgage - but nowadays, I don't really mind what happens, as I think if it all goes wrong for real, you still have to go with it.

The only number I care about is the scoreboard.

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

Scoring a goal is very important for us, but the objective is to win the match.

With nice words, we never obtained anything.

What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal.

If you act as if nothing has happened, and if nothing more comes of it, you will indeed find that nothing has happened after all.

We don't necessarily get what we work for; it is what we expect that comes to us.

If the farmer should make a mistake and sow thistle seed instead of wheat, the soil-doesn't say to him, My friend, you have made a mistake. You have been sowing thistle seed instead of wheat, so we will change the law, so that you may get what you thought you were going to get. No, the soil will always give us a harvest like our sowing. If we sow thistle seed it will be just as faithful in producing thistles as it will in producing wheat or cabbages or potatoes.

We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.