Portuguese Proverb Quotes

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

... 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.

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

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

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

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.

'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.

Everything is a reaction.

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 wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

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

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.

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.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.