Consequences Quotes

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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. — Francis Ford Coppola
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. — Norman Cousins
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without… — Norman Cousins
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen… — Norman Cousins
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have… — Junot Diaz
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this… — Philip K. Dick
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. — Isadora Duncan
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with… — Sylvia Earle
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.' — Roger Ebert
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems,… — Marian Wright Edelman
Consequences are unpitying. — George Eliot
If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that… — Tim Ferriss
Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there… — Mohsin Hamid
When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the… — Ismail Haniyeh
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. — Augustus Hare
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in… — Henry Hazlitt
People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone… — Katherine Heigl
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. — Thomas Hobbes

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