Wallace Stegner Quotes

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Everything is a reaction.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

What I do affects others; what others do affects me.

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

Everything you touch touches you.

When I do something, I consult my family, so that when you get me, you get my whole family.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.

We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.