Porter Robinson Quotes

No action is without its side effects.

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

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

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

Every person's every action has an effect.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

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

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.

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.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

The only conflict that is worse than one that is intended is one that is unintended.

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

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.

Something devastating can happen to you, and it can have positive consequences. By the same token, something fantastic can happen, and it can bring a lot of trouble. That's life.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

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.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.