Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

I begin by considering an effect.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

We obtained victory. The price was that we ruined the country.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

You don't go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

One thing can make many other things happen.

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

This victory will be your I ruin.

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.