Consequence Quotes
1836 quotes by 1341 authors
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As…
— Richard Dawkins
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To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and…
— Sister Souljah
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who…
— Jane Austen
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According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant…
— Sam Harris
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which…
— Frantz Fanon
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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara…
— Haruki Murakami
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Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the…
— C.D. Wright
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From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid…
— Amy Tan
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
— Elie Wiesel
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Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
— Dalai Lama
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose...
— Neil Postman
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and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a…
— Khaled Hosseini
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
— Stephen Covey
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...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship…
— Isabel Allende
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You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?
— Amy Tan
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I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the…
— David McCullough
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