Quotes About Outcome

It's strange,' he said, 'that you always changed everything and I changed nothing and yet we've both ended up in the same place.

Do you want the long answer or the short?" is the customary divide between explanations versus outcomes in the retelling of events. Ferrante gives us both the long answer and the short, and in doing so adumbrates the mysterious beauty and brutality of personal experience.

there was no reason, he said, to trouble myself on that account, since research had proved that parental influence over personality outcomes was virtually nil. A parent's effect lay almost entirely in the quality of his or her nurture and of the home environment, much as a plant will wilt or thrive according to where it is placed and how it is cared for, while its organic structure remains inviolable.

Možete neÅ¡to željeti, gospodo Duffy, ali to ne znaci da cete to i dobiti. NeÅ¡to silno željeti nekada jednostavno nije dovoljno.«

It's such a relief after all these years to learn that you recovered from your fright," he said in a low voice, giving my hand a squeeze, "and that you grew up so pretty!" "Were you worried?" I asked, touched. "Yes. What were you, eleven? Twelve? At that age we're all gawky, and the outcome is always in doubt.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.

It doesn't matter what the early votes look like. It doesn't matter what the polls look like. We can lose everything.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But, when you win, you wake up feeling better.

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

And if I hadn't done 'Celebrity Big Brother', I wouldn't have got 'Extras', so in the long run what was seen as a terrible mistake turned out well.

At the end of the day, it's a big difference to get the draw than to get the win, but I'll take either over a loss any day.