Quotes About Outcome

We cannot control the reception of our work. We must find our dignity in the doing.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

and who's to say what would have been for the best? You only found out afterwards, when it was too late.

I can't do anything to you now, but time can. Time will tell. It always does.

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - than love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

Later—well, what came later, came later.

I don't think you can worry about what is going to happen with something after that. I think the only thing that you can do is be honest and let the chips fall where they may.

When it's a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time.

When it's a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and so feels more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

It's odd—when you look back, things seem simpler, but they weren't." "Really?" "When it's a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and so feels more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

When it's a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and so feels more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

cuando un hombre escoge una acción, también escoge el resultado.

Aaron always maintained that genre writers were formulaic, predictable and had no respect for Craft. And romance was the least appealing of all the genres. Why bother reading a book when you knew what the outcome would be?

Nothing can emerge at the end of the process which did not appear as a presupposition and precondition at the beginning.

In the end we all arrive at the same place. I hardly see that it matters how we get there. It seemed to Ursula that how you got there was the whole point.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Man proposes, God disposes.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.