quotes about Unintended Consequences

“What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?”

Source : Sylvia Louise Engdahl (2003). “Enchantress from the Stars”, Puffin

“I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set,”

Source : "Gwyneth Paltrow's Post-Split Plans: Actress Reveals She's Taking a Break From Acting to Focus on Her Kids" by Lily Harrison, www.eonline.com. March 26, 2014.

“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”

“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”

“I believe that voters should know who Hillary Clinton is.”

“Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.”

“With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.”

“Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.”

“For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.”

“Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures...”