The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the… — Shari Wiedmann Copy Share Image
We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might… — Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi Copy Share Image
I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them,… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image
Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand.… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey Copy Share Image
There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are… — Moby Copy Share Image