Consequence Quotes

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Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. — Paul Wolfowitz
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is… — Fareed Zakaria
A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for. — Gary Zukav
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention… — Gary Zukav
If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination.… — Julian Baggini
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run. — Francis Collins
It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned… — Evgeny Morozov
Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same… — Evgeny Morozov
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the… — Howard Rheingold
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen nextâ€”if you knew in advance the consequences of… — Margaret Atwood
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the… — Oliver Sacks
Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what… — Amy Tan
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence — William Shakespeare
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always… — Dag Hammarskjold
The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and… — Peter Matthiessen
Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops… — Steve Grand
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can… — Nick Hornby

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