Isabelle Holland Quotes

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

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

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Things always happen in series.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

Everything is a reaction.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

Political history is not a sequence of incoherent and haphazard events but a chain of causes and effects.

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

Everything has a cause.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.