Top 100 Out The Way Quotes
#1. Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders
#2. All that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#3. Never try to explain a 5-by-7 vision to someone with a 3-by-5 experience. It rarely works out the way you'd like it to.
LC Johnson
#4. Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.
Frederick Lenz
#5. When things don't turn out the way we want, about the only thing we can do is know God is still there piecing together all the scraps of the events in our lives the way He has planned. He sees the big picture even when we don't.
Jody Hedlund
#6. I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Gavin Bryars
#7. They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.
Rene Auberjonois
#8. If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
Epictetus
#9. My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us ... step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.
John F. Kennedy
#10. Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification.
Tom Udall
#11. I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.
Simon Cowell
#12. Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.
Frederick Lenz
#13. No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.
Mark Morris
#14. You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.
Peter Morgan
#15. There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.
Nydia Velazquez
#16. Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.
Epictetus
#17. Kahlil Gibran said, "When you are born, your work is placed in your heart." So, what is your work? Your purpose? Are you living it out the way your heart urges you to?
Wayne W. Dyer
#18. It's funny how nothing really ever turns out the way we expect it to, no matter how certain the future seems. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate.
Cassia Leo
#19. Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
Mary Tyler Moore
#20. I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter ... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.
Randy Couture
#21. The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!
Geraldine McCaughrean
#22. The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.
Iyanla Vanzant
#24. Love isn't always clean and pretty--sometimes it's messy, cruel, and confusing. And sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But then, the beauty of love is that it's very strong, and when it's real, it's worth it.
Heather Lyons
#25. Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.
Kyle Shewfelt
#26. Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
Henri Nouwen
#27. As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.
Cary Fukunaga
#28. I hope this works. Its such a shame, both so young. I thought we would've had more time. I thought the Fates would've let the prophecy play it self out. The way it should be.
Candace Knoebel
#29. People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
Denis Leary
#31. There are no guarantees of how things are going to work out. They're actually working out the way they need to be working out, no matter how outrageous they seem.
Art Hochberg
#32. I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
Madonna Ciccone
#33. But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will,' Robyn said, 'and that can be rather wonderful.
Victoria Connelly
#34. If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.
Jay-Z
#35. I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#36. I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.
Jenny Han
#37. Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.
Kristin Harmel
#38. Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
Mary Kay Blakely
#40. I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it.
George Saunders
#41. The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.
Kim Fay
#42. I was a happy child. I felt loved. I never would've imagined that things would turn out the way that they did.
Bella Forrest
#44. Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.
Julia Child
#45. You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
Will Sergeant
#46. Nothing ever turns out the way we expect, good or bad.
Matthew Moy
#47. We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.
Jaime Pressly
#48. Time has a way of making me realize that we can either lay the blamer our problems on someone else, letting that be an excuse for why our life isn't turning out the way we want it, or we can take the blame upon ourselves and let the responsibility for any change that should happen be on us.
Rory Feek
#49. It's funny how nothing really turns out the way we expect it to, no matter how certain the future seems. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit
Cassia Leo
#50. Love in the real world doesn't usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don't always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you can't love someone else. - Georgina to Brandy
Richelle Mead
#51. I am so gone. Lost. Her smile, the little sigh she lets out, the way her eyes light up. All of it. I'm broken down and rebuilt. And nothing will ever be the same again.
Caisey Quinn
#52. I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
Andrea Arnold
#53. I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.
Jane Lynch
#54. Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.
Michael Chabon
#55. Your life has turned out the way it has for a reason. And now, you need to unearth that purpose and use it for your own good and the greater good.
Joanne Guidoccio
#56. I still felt hot. Like I was sweltering. Like I was on fire. The kind of fire that couldn't be put out by water. The kind that couldn't be put out the way I was used to fighting other fires. She was the only one who could douse this kind of fire.
Kat Austen
#57. To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
J. C. Chandor
#58. The quiet is funereal, air as thick and still as if it never moves; as if all sound has been smothered out, the way a blanket subdues a fire. The atmosphere has weight, and simultaneously seems a vacuum.
Phyllis Edgerly Ring
#59. I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
Patrick Rothfuss
#60. I could never plan a thing and get it to come out the way I planned it. It came out some other way
some way I had not counted upon.
Mark Twain
#61. I can't do it, Gideon! I can't make out the way you kiss me one moment and then act as if you loathed me like poison the next!"
Gideon said, after a brief pause, "I'd much rather be kissing you the whole time than loathing you, but you don't exactly make it easy for me.
Kerstin Gier
#62. Sugar got her beauty from her mama, was Theo's first impression, but this woman did not strike him as having a heart of gold. She looked rich and mean, the opposite of his own mother, and he felt proud that Sugar had turned out the way she had despite that.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#63. Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
Louis L'Amour
#64. But then, things never turn out the way you think they will.
Michael Crichton
#65. They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.
Chris LeDoux
#67. Victor couldn't help but wonder if becoming an EO had hollowed her out the way it had him, had all of them -
V.E Schwab
#68. The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
Michael Korda
#69. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.
Thomas Mullen
#70. I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.
Darren McCarty
#71. It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. Henry
#72. Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.
Kevin Fitzgerald
#73. I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.
David Coverdale
#74. In my own experience, I plotted and planned my life when I was getting out of law school to know by what year I'd make it to the Supreme Court. That didn't work out the way I planned.
Lloyd Blankfein
#75. Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.
Joelle Charbonneau
#76. Things don't always turn out the way you want, but things generally turn out for the best.
Stephanie Bond
#77. Maybe someday I'll be his and he'll be mine. And space or time won't matter because we were meant to be.
But I won't hold my breath. Life doesn't usually work out the way we hope.
Amber L. Johnson
#78. To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'
Elmore Leonard
#79. How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.
Eric Mangini
#80. I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
Rob Reiner
#81. Everything is clear to me - outline, details, future, emotion. Not like the world, where everything is muddy and messed, and nothing ever works out the way you mean it to - no matter how skilful or how honourable you are, no matter how vile your enemy. When
Kelly Gardiner
#82. Do you know my attitude? Books, scriptures, and things like that only point out the way to reach God. After finding the way, what more need is there of books and scriptures? Then comes the time for action.
Ramakrishna
#83. It is not that things always work out the way you want them to but you must remember that God is always with you
Sunday Adelaja
#84. We are in the monsoons and we must weather it out - the way of wisdom is, instead of pining for calmer days, to learn to live wisely and well in the midst of continuous strain.
Elton Trueblood
#85. The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball.
Tony Dungy
#86. If everyone does as I've instructed, then things should work out the way they're meant to. (Acheron)
And if we don't? (Talon)
We're all screwed. (Acheron)
Gee, Ash, you're just so damn comforting. (Nick)
I try to be anyway. (Acheron)
You fail admirably. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
Bruno Mars
#88. Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
Sarah Dessen
#89. It didn't play out the way we expected it to, yet it did work out in a completely different way," said Lin. "And it sort of taught us that if we were flexible we could always earn something and figure it out. We didn't get hurt. We didn't starve.
Herb McCormick
#90. What I mean is that we simply may not have the same meaning as God for the word 'failure.' To me, failure means it doesn't turn out the way I wanted it to. To God, it means I didn't pick up the brush.
Angie Smith
#91. There's no fear in me. Fear, I guess, is rooted entirely in anticipation. Worrying that things won't turn out the way you've planned, that something will hurt; dreading the sorrow to come - all that goes away when you simply accept finality. It
Pittacus Lore
#92. Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.
Sandra Bullock
#93. I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want to roll their project out. It's just important to give them that opportunity to roll it out the way they want to.
Bryce Wilson
#94. I've just grown into not having to care so much and to not try to think that I'm going to be able to plan out the way that everyone perceives me. There are no false impressions. Everyone's impression of you is going to be what it is in that isolated moment.
Kristen Stewart
#95. When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!
Chris Rock
#96. I'd love to tell you that I walked in and killed the snakes, Annabeth stabbed Elvis in the back and took his scroll, and we went home happy. You'd figure once in a while things would work out the way we planned. But noooooo.
Rick Riordan
#97. Choosing one thing usually doesn't mean killing all of the other options forever. Oftentimes, you can always go back and change your mind if you want. If not, and you realize the decision did not pan out the way you had hoped, you now have a lesson for future decisions.
Chris Hardwick
#98. How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?
Chris Wooding
#99. I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.
Dana White
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