Unforeseen Consequence Quotes

The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

The truth is, he almost wasn't a senator at all. In 1972, shortly after his improbable victory, but before he took the oath of office, my father went to Washington to look at his new office space. My mom took us to go buy a Christmas tree. On the way home, we were in an automobile accident. My mom, Neilia, and my sister, Naomi, were killed.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

Power, like lightening, injures before its warning.

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

One never knows how a bout is going to pan out and even in last 2-3 seconds things can change.

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. Her lips brushed over his for the barest of seconds, but it was still a kiss, and when she came to her senses and dared to pull away and look at him, he had the most curious expression on his face. Brodick knew she regretted her sponatenity, but as he stared into her brilliant green eyes, he also knew, with a certainty that shook him to the core, that his life had just been irrevocably changed by this mere slip of a woman.

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

I remember when James Wan and I did the first 'Saw' movie, a lot of people would say to us, 'Well, you left the door open for a sequel.' And we would say, 'No, we literally closed the door!' We thought it was a nice ending. Little did we know that the producers had other ideas once the film was a hit.

A lot of things in my career have happened by chance.