Quotes About Outcome

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

You can't do anything about a film's fate at the box office.

I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

You only have to be right once.

I can't be a one-hit wonder - though, I don't think that is going to be the case.

In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst—the last is a real tragedy.

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

The result justifies the deed (Exitus acta probat)

It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs, sir.

the hand that counteth its chickens ere they be hatched oft-times doth but step on the banana-skin.

As history has shown, what happens after the deal determines the ultimate success. It's one thing to make an acquisition, and another to integrate it well.

Taft said: "I don't see how I could have done any differently

Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting." This

Standing in the kingdom, we make responsible decisions in love, with assurance that how things turn out for us does not really matter that much because, in any case, we are in the kingdom of the heavens. In that kingdom nothing that can happen to us is "the end of the world.