Steve McConnell Quotes

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Nothing ever goes away.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

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

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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

A fool throws a stone into a well, and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again.

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour

Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the spell you cast. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see.

We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

Laziness means more work in the long run.

Short-cuts lead to long delays.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.