Consequence Quotes

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This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences… — Italo Calvino
She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back… — Ian Mcewan
Iâ€™m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the… — Michael Chabon
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking… — Elizabeth Gilbert
but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking… — Jose Saramago
Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences. — Allison Glock
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. — William Faulkner
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That… — Maria Montessori
Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows. — Joyce Carol Oates
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked… — John Steinbeck
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have… — Thomas Sowell
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. — Cornel West
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living — Octavia Butler
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he… — Francine Rivers
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a… — Winston Churchill
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences. — Boyd K. Packer
We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences. — David Gemmell
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was… — Roald Dahl
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the… — Ted Dekker
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest… — Susan B. Anthony

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