Francis Spufford Quotes

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

What's important is for us to be aware that our actions have repercussions.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.

The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

Always make a note of what you are doing and where it leads. By and by, you will become aware of that which is ego and that which is nature; which is real and which is false. It will take time and alertness, observation. And don't deceive yourself - because only ego leads to misery, nothing else. Don't throw the responsibility on the other; the other is irrelevant. Your ego leads to misery, nobody else leads you into misery. Ego is the gate of hell, and the natural, the authentic, the real that comes from your center, is the door to heaven. You will have to find it and work it out.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.