Unintended Consequences
Nobody likes to feel like they're on the losing side of anything.
Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.
Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.
If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
In 2017, there was a sudden recognition of several adverse societal consequences of information technology, from job losses due to automation to manipulation of public opinion, with significant political consequences.
You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
Negative attitudes bring negative results.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.
As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.
Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.
People motivated by fear do not act well.
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.
When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
Delay always breeds danger.
Do you think anything else can go wrong tonight?" Kaden turned to look at Nicholas coming up behind her and nodded. "Yes ma'am. I'd say all kinds of things could go wrong.
Child stardom is a really hard thing. It can really lead to bad things, and I think a lot of people have gone through that.
