A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
You can think whatever you want, say whatever you want, and do whatever you want, as long as you are willing to… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven… — Charles Benbrook Copy Share Image
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on;… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them,… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image