A Quote by Stacy Schiff

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Stacy Schiff

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Stacy Schiff
American - Novelist
Born: October 26, 1961

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.

Marc Faber

The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.

Anthony Giddens

Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

Nora Ephron

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

Mary Katharine Ham

For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

Ian Lustick

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Ann Druyan

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

Ted Yoho

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

Jeremy Wade

I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.

Barack Obama

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Stone Gossard

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

Richard Schickel

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.

Richard Grasso

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

Mahatma Gandhi

The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity.

James B. Stewart

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.