Unintended Consequence Quotes

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

Every problem solved is a problem made.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

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

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

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

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

What do you say to the last man who died from a mistake.

I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

I left my car parked at the top of Lombard Street Hill, and I forgot to put the breaks on. It's the funniest thing. The car is running down the hill.

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.