Consequences Quotes

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Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach,… — Diana Gabaldon
...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
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
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
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
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
Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast… — J C Ryle
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and… — M. Scott Peck
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do… — John Berger
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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