Unfortunate Outcomes Quotes

War is never a choice between a good choice and a bad choice. It is a choice between a bad choice and a worse choice.

Maybe we’ve done the best thing but sometimes have done it in the worst way.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.

Ideally you want every relationship to work, if it happens it's great, if it doesn't it is unfortunate.

It’s amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed advantage to see clearly missteps that were less clear at the time of events.

Pretty sure I always say things that upset people, get under people's skin.

I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.