Foregone Conclusion Quotes

#1. Maybe if we'd had more information...It wouldn't have made a difference at all. Those doors were already locked. What was going to happen was already a foregone conclusion. All that could have changed is the details.

Sometimes, it's the details that matter the most of all.

Mira Grant

#2. The trial was over in nine days, the verdict a foregone conclusion.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#3. The public mind has by now so thoroughly grown out of humor with it as to make condemnation of capitalism and all its works a foregone conclusion
almost a requirement of the etiquette of discussion.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#4. It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.

Cory Booker

#7. Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

Diane F. Halpern

#8. Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

Sylvester Stallone

#9. (liberal individualism triumphed as long as it undermined intermediate structures such as nations, corporations, castes, but when it attacked that ultimate social structure, the family, and thus the birthrate, it signed its own death warrant; Muslim dominance was a foregone conclusion).

Michel Houellebecq

#10. The NCI sent (,) ... to review our funding(,) ... people connected with the nuclear establishment ... It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied.

Rosalie Bertell

#11. He had been young once and limitless, and then somehow his life became a foregone conclusion. An almost was, not even a has been.

Noah Hawley

#12. I didn't say you're a bad person. I just don't like being a foregone conclusion for the sole reason of having a vagina.

Jamie McGuire

#13. They stumble at the Word of God for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it - which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion.

J.B. Phillips

#14. In fact, although I am not aware of it (and I am never aware of it, no matter how many times I have the dream) her suicide is a foregone conclusion. It is this way in dreams: when decisions are being made, they have already been made.

Dexter Palmer

#15. Everyone seemed to think that violence was an acceptable risk and a foregone conclusion for prostitutes, call girls and streetwalkers alike. There was almost an air of, well, what did she expect? What did she expect, indeed? To be allowed to live?

Jeannette De Beauvoir

#16. Never call a meeting until the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

Ken Follett

#17. Planning is worrying based on facts

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#18. That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

Pete Sampras

#19. Trust is just a choice. Someone can't earn your trust if you don't choose to let them, to give them the chance to show you.

Sarah Robinson

#20. I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

Jennifer Lopez

#21. Go BIG or go BIG...there is nothing else!

Lorii Myers

#22. At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.

John Lasseter

#23. Sanity is not statistical.

George Orwell

#24. I have no scenery to help me and no words are written for me to speak. There is no curtain. But out of the vivid dream of somebody else's life I have to create an atmosphere - for that is advocacy.

P.D. James

#25. The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

Margaret Thatcher

#26. All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man

Bernard Berenson

#27. I felt," he said, "irritated. It seemed a waste, I suppose. To come so far. To cross the sea. To die for ... " He shrugs. "God knows why.

Hilary Mantel

#28. Nobody gets any guarantees.

John Engler