Unintentional Actions Quotes

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.

I don't think people that make history set out to make it.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things. It's distressingly easy for those mechanisms to be triggered, either consciously by demagogues, or naively by people who think they're trying to do the right thing. Which is why I think it's more akin to tic-tac-toe.

All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.

I never set out to do the things I'm doing now.

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.