Stephen King Quotes

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

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

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Every person's every action has an effect.

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

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

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

No action is without its side effects.

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.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

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

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

History passes the final judgment.