Quotes About Outcome

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

All who drink of this treatment recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die," he wrote. "It is obvious, therefore, that it fails only in incurable cases.

if the path of least resistance does not lead to the nearest tangle tree, it leads to some equivalent disaster. ~Good Magician Humphrey~

Like life, games were governed by rules. But unlike life, games were utterly defined by those rules. The rules were the game, and if one played by different rules, then one simply played a different game. Since a fixed framework of rules determined the meaning of every move as a move, games possessed a clarity that made life seen like a drunken brawl by comparison. The proprieties were indubitable, the permutations secure; only the outcome was shrouded.

Like life, games were governed by rules. But unlike life, games were utterly defined by those rules. The rules were the game, and if one played by different rules, then one simply played a different game. Since a fixed framework of rules determined the meaning of every move as a move, games possessed a clarity that made life seem a drunken brawl by comparison. The proprieties were indubitable, the permutations secure; only the outcome was shrouded.

As C. S. Lewis put it, "Aim at heaven and you will get the earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

End justifies the means

death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike

What we fear too much we often bring to pass.

have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.' 

They said that man proposes, God disposes;

How many wisely conceived projects have failed and will fail in the future! How many insane projects have succeeded and will succeed!

And he added that prudence in no way assured us of success but consoled us and excused us in failure.

He's happy. And isn't that the worst of all possible outcomes?

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Sometimes our best actions result in things that are most regrettable.

Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good.

Sometimes our best actions result in things that are most regrettable. And yet you could not have acted otherwise.

we've had some luck, both good and bad.

no matter how much a man may try to do what is right, the outcome may not be one that he either foresees or desires. And that's grounds for regret—sometimes verra great regret," he added more softly, "but not for everlasting guilt. For it is there we must throw ourselves on God's mercy and hope to receive it.

Bazen en piÅŸmanl?k duyaca??m?z hareketler en iyi sonuçlar? doÄŸururlar.

Do what must be done, and then deal with the consequences.