Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Ideas have consequences.

Events, which, considered simply by themselves, seem to be of but little moment, assume a very different aspect when viewed in the light of their causes and consequences. Actions, either of individuals or of bodies of men, insignificant in their own proper nature, often start up into an unsuspected importance when viewed as indication of the state of heart from which they spring.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

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.

Everything we do affects other people.

Every person's every action has an effect.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

No action is without its side effects.

Everything we do has consequences.

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

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

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Actions have consequences.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.

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

...I dabble in causes and effects.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

One thing can make many other things happen.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.