Chinua Achebe Quotes

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

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

Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

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

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

As the means, so the end.

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Ideas have consequences.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.