Sylvester McCoy Quotes

Everything we do has consequences.

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.

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

History is the unfolding of miscalculations

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

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

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

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

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

Every person's every action has an effect.