Quotes About Outcome

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Didst thou never hearThat things ill got had ever bad success?

Many things, having full referenceTo one consent, may work contrariously;As many arrows, loosed several ways,Fly to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;As many lines close in the dial's center;So may a thousand actions, once afoot,End in one purpose, and be all well borneWithout defeat.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

This is the nightThat either makes me or fordoes me quite.

All's well if all ends well.

Delays have dangerous ends.

O! that a man might knowThe end of this day's business, ere it come.

Let them hang themselves in their own straps.

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