Consequence Quotes · Page 39

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present…

— Gottfried Leibniz

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's…

— William Shakespeare

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

— Keith Rabois

You have a lot to learn before becoming a champion. Once you are champion, you must accept the consequences.

— Sergio Martinez

Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

— Carly Fiorina

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them…

— Benjamin Franklin

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.

— Triple H

The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ,…

— Michael Medved

I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There…

— Chuck Hagel

I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and…

— John Sheridan

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they…

— Perry Brass

We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago…

— Lance Morrow

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and…

— Thomas Merton

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame,…

— Tony Blair

An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility…

— Guy Lawson

“First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If…

— Anonymous

We often say that someone has exceptional political or social savvy, but what specific cognitive skills allow these people to handle interpersonal…

— Justin Menkes

In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers…

— Richard A. Falk

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.…

— Nikola Tesla

Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when…

— Joel Fuhrman

The Democratic Party is a closed clique. They are not the best and brightest. They're not the smartest. They haven't had to…

— Rush Limbaugh

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but…

— Carl Sagan

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of…

— Stanley Kubrick

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

— Albert Bandura

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

— Ben Harper

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

— Chuck Todd

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

— Antonin Scalia

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

— Brian Tracy

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another…

— Caroline Myss

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of…

— Leo Tolstoy

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years…

— Gray Davis

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly…

— Herman Melville

Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

— Dalai Lama

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

— Elie Wiesel

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

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in…

— Marcia Muller