Livy Quotes

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

You cannot do only one thing.

Things always happen in series.

Everything is a reaction.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

... you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you have the beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.