Consequence Quotes · Page 27

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

— Keith Rabois

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Triple H

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

We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it…

— Gregg Braden

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences…

— Benjamin Haydon

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

— Amanda Ripley

Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the…

— Edward Norton

Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to…

— Emily Barton

Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is…

— James Cameron

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's…

— Norm MacDonald

The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain…

— Alan Greenspan

The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences…

— Albert Shanker

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that…

— Douglas Adams

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to…

— Isabel Allende

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary…

— David Bornstein

What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…

— C. Wright Mills

If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss…

— Philip Larkin

One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I…

— Stephen King

If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in…

— Andrew Johnson

What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that…

— Asra Nomani

There's a fundamental difference between many of the Democrats and my party. And that is: They want to leave before the job…

— George W. Bush

Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty…

— George Carlin

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

— John Stott

We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and…

— Steve Yzerman

It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about…

— Walter Munk

I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.

— Barack Obama

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it…

— Natalia Ginzburg

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

— Reese Witherspoon

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

— George W. Bush

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

— Tucker Max

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

— Indira Gandhi

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the…

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

— Anatol Rapoport

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

— Susan Sontag

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed…

— Robert Dallek

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is…

— Jose Rizal

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

— Neville Cardus