Ovid Quotes

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

Everything we do has consequences.

Never scorn the connection between deeds and their results

Actions have consequences.

Every decision you make has a consequence.

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

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

Profit is not a cause but a result-

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

Every why hath a wherefore.

I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight or the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.

Nothing comes from nothing.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.