Quotes About Unintended

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

I don't think she meant any harm." "I'm sure she didn't. But people do plenty of harm when they didn't mean any. It happens all the time.

There are consequences to your desires that you will regret, no matter how much you imagine your evils are unintended.

a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

One of the principles of leadership in any organization, particularly a local church, is the law of unintended consequences. It points out that any significant change in an organization will have reactions that extend well beyond the change itself.

And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.

Everything we did to fix me had side effects we had to fix. Then the fixes had side effects to fix and so on and so on.

Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part of the author, did become a success.... Don't aim at success - the more you aim and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued, it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as a result of our being a meritocracy, if you have not succeeded, you are of lesser merit. It is shameful to be a failure in this country.

The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.

Denial of contraception to women without the financial means to afford it could cause substantial economic burdens, and even greater burdens if the lack of contraception results in an unintended pregnancy.

Conservatives tend to be very skeptical of change. When something could be improved, they often get in the way of those improvements because they fear the unintended consequence perhaps more than they should.

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

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.

In an ideal world, you don't want creatures where they shouldn't be because there's always unintended consequences.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.