“But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”
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Knut Hamsun 22
Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient 1859–1952Related quotes
“Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.”
Variant: Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 129
“Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.”
Source: The MacKade Brothers: Devin and Shane
Bennington College address (1970)
Context: I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine.
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.
“It is better to work out than rust out.”
Even at the age of 102 he said this as quoted in [Our Leaders, http://books.google.com/books?id=YwTh-vjSFXUC&pg=PA51, 1989, Children's Book Trust, 978-81-7011-701-8, 63]
