Quotes with consequences

  • Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
  • A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
  • The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.
  • If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
  • Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
  • There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
  • It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
  • Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
  • We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
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  • Norman Cousins A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Isadora Duncan Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Samuel Smiles It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Confucius When anger rises, think of the consequences.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • John F. Kennedy A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers - and this is the basis of all human morality.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • C. Wright Mills A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Andrew Denton Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
    Andrew Denton
     
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  • Les Brown Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • William James Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Brendan Gleeson Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Brad Feld As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • William James Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bob Ney Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Lydia M. Child But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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