Herbert Spencer Quotes

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

Every person's every action has an effect.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

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.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

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

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

One thing can make many other things happen.

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

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

Everything is a reaction.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

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

Unintended Consequences

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

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.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.