Chinua Achebe Quotes

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

Every person's every action has an effect.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

If you do something, expect consequences.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

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.

Life is to blame for everything.

Everything we do has consequences.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.

Conditions we face are the result of choices made and problems unmet.

Actions have consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of 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 these ripples.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.