Martin Clunes Quotes

I've created such a monster.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Every solution breeds new problems.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Good intentions rarely make good policy.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

Good fortune has side effects.

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Every problem solved is a problem made.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.