Consequence Quotes

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If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is… — John Green
I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye. — John Irving
[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would… — Timothy B. Tyson
Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer — Robert Asprin
She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. — Ursula K. Le Guin
We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them. — Sean Covey
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action… — Dalai Lama
We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence. — Kate Chopin
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. — Tess Gerritsen
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them… — Albert Camus
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences. — Clarence Jordan
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions. — Neil Gaiman
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,… — Jane Austen
He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a… — Diana Gabaldon
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but… — Ray Bradbury
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word… — Sam Harris
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world… — Neal Shusterman
One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the… — Terry Pratchett

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