Consequences Quotes
1504 quotes by 1144 authors
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Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
— Robert Breault
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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And…
— George Eliot
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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are…
— George Washington
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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
— Germaine Greer
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I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and…
— Neil Postman
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
— Samuel Smiles
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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor…
— Lord Acton
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Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality,…
— Lynne Truss
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Did Bill Clinton actually think that he could get blow jobs from a Jewish woman and there would be no consequences?
— Larry David
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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a…
— William Irwin Thompson
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This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the…
— Georg Cantor
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I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,
— Giles Duley
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment…
— Taslima Nasrin
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I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
— Frank Ocean
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To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
— Thomas Sowell
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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific…
— Nancy Pearcey
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