Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following… — Lewis Gordon Copy Share Image
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict.… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence… — Peter London Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're… — Michael Franzese Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which… — Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc Copy Share Image
She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in… — Marcia Muller Copy Share Image
To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
In my judgement, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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