Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Everything is a reaction.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it’s going to look like on the other side, but you’ll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

Every person's every action has an effect.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

If you do something, expect consequences.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

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

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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

A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

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

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

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

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.