Consequence Quotes · Page 38

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their…

— Chris Hadfield

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

— Jean Plaidy

I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in…

— Giulio Douhet

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done.…

— Dag Hammarskjold

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although…

— Seth Lloyd

Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets…

— Yasmine Elmasri

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

— Edwin Land

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the…

— Noam Chomsky

In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that…

— Glenn Hubbard

One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups…

— Astra Taylor

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

— Arthur Miller

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of…

— Leo Tolstoy

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

— George Orwell

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

— Andy Stanley

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

— Elie Wiesel

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to…

— Wislawa Szymborska

The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on;…

— Misha Glenny

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

— Ted Malloch

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come whether…

— Jacques Vallee

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash…

— David Brooks

What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure…

— Gavriel David Rosenfeld

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

— Robert Breault

Donald Trump and Eddie Gillespie and the Republicans in the Commonwealth of Virginia are the No. 1 impediment to Medicaid expansion. Voters…

— Thomas Perez

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined…

— George Eliot