Marco Pierre White Quotes

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Successful parties create their own monsters.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

All laws have unintended consequences.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

The law of unintended consequences, far more than the Constitution, is what governs the modern presidency.

It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Good intentions rarely make good policy.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

The creature has been exalted above its creators

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Unintended Consequences

This is not the time for critical experiments which would have a highly destructive effect on morale.

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.

One of the things that can be helpful in terms of an explanation is to look at the ways in which cults are similar to abusive relationships. Nobody seeks out an abusive partner, but so many people stay in these relationships longer than they should - they make excuses, they ignore red flags, and they allow themselves to be emotionally manipulated.

No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.