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Quotes About Outcome

Actions always have consequences!
~ Joel Coen, A Serious Man
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
~ William Shakespeare
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
~ P. T. Barnum
Hollywood is like a stock market - you're always up and down and all around. With age, you start to invest less in the outcome of that.
~ Ryan Reynolds
...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.
~ Rene Dubos
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
~ Benjamin Franklin
But whatever you hope, you will find out that you can't bargain with your life on your own terms. It is always going to be proving itself worse or better than you hoped.
~ Wendell Berry
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. ••• I
~ Wilbur Smith
How can I thank you?" "I will tell you how. Don't blame me for what happens afterwards!
~ Wilkie Collins
In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
~ Will Durant
There is, again, a "Multiplication of Effects": one cause may produce a vast variety of results, and help to differentiate the world; a word amiss, like Marie Antoinette's, or an altered telegram at Ems, or a wind at Salamis, may play an endless rôle in history.
~ Will Durant
That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.
~ William Boyd
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
~ William Faulkner
It worked okay.
~ William Gibson
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
~ William Golding
When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead.
~ William Goldman
The means have murdered the end.
~ William James
situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.
~ William L. Shirer
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.
~ China Mieville
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
~ Chinese proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
~ Chinese proverb
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
~ Chinese proverb
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
~ Chinese proverb
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
~ Chin-Ning Chu