Event Outcome Quotes

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

We've been astonished by how good groups working together can predict the outcomes of events.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

How profoundly human nature and indeed human relations affect the outcome of events.

I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.