Sarah Dessen Quotes

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

Little hinges swing big doors.

I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

One thing can make many other things happen.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Everything we do affects other people.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Everything is a reaction.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

No action is without its side effects.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.