Consequence Quotes

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The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered… — Wilkie Collins
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption. — Paulo Coelho
A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless… — Markus Zusak
no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the… — Abraham Lincoln
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates… — Henry Cloud
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?â€ Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory.… — Karen Marie Moning
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's… — Stephen King
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The… — Michael Grant
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing… — George Carlin
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break… — Henry Cloud
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that… — Rudolfo Anaya
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give… — Andy Andrews
While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect,… — Andy Andrews
If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in… — Charles Baxter
If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it. — Noam Chomsky

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