Adverse Outcome Quotes

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

Whichever side looses is horrified at the outcome.

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

Too much intensity can be a bad thing.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.

A wrong motive involves defeat.

There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

Success will ruin your life.

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.