The Law Of Unintended Consequences Quotes

#1. Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Anne Michaels

#2. I'm just worried about the unintended consequences of the laws.

Mary Katharine Ham

#3. What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.

Gavriel David Rosenfeld

#4. I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me.

Sid Meier

#5. On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

King James I

#6. Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. It is ... highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Ian Tattersall

#8. You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Elizabeth Edwards

#9. If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

Tom Rath

#10. I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

Shirley Knight

#11. You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative

William S. Burroughs

#12. Male social conditioning encourages boys and men to aim to bed as many women as possible....so much so, that their self esteem and self worth become intertwined with the number of sexual partners they have; and when that number is low or even zero, so too is their self-confidence.

Miya Yamanouchi

#13. The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.

Eric Weiner

#14. Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

Tim Walberg

#15. The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

Richard Schickel

#16. My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

James Bay

#17. Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Arthur Helps

#18. The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin