James Rollins Quotes

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

There is no injustice without justice coming after, just as there is no night not followed by day.

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

Everything is a reaction.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Failure will be sanctioned.

What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

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

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

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

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.