Unanticipated Consequences Quotes

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Several highly improbable and therefore unforeseen failures.

We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

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

When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.

I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Political reforms, without exception, have a down side.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.

The difficulty in connection with asking questions and obtaining information is that we might obtain information which I personally would rather not have…

History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.