Potential Outcomes Quotes

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

Everything is possible in this life.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

Things are always different from what they might be.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

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

There are infinite possibilities.

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

When anything can happen, everything matters.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

So little of what could happen does happen.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

I guess life is full of maybes.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?