Quotes About Outcome

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

History is never surprising after it happens.

History passes the final judgment

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

A walk is as good as a home run.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.