Consequence Quotes (page 9)

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• tree
• saying
• moving

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU... J. Michael Straczynski

• acceptance
• focus
• responsibility

…the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn’t be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species... Tom Robbins

• wellness
• baby
• money

Keep away from her," said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of the mythic has been set in motion, you might as well try and keep bees from honey, crooks from money, politicians from babies, philosophers from maybes. Vina had her hooks in me, and the consequence was the story of my life. Salman Rushdie

• happy
• contentment
• bad

I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• acceptance
• wall
• must

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• determination
• excuses
• determining

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions! George Eliot

• free
• choose
• consequences

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. Stephen Covey

• writing
• haunting
• been

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows. Joyce Carol Oates

• self
• work
• him

...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him... Don DeLillo

• life
• sacrifice
• commitment

To grant life more importance than it has is the mistake committed in sagging systems; as a consequence, no one is ready to sacrifice himself to defend them, and they collapse under the first blows perpetrated upon them. This is even more true of nations in general. Once they begin to hold life sacred, it abandons them, it ceases to be on their side. Emile M. Cioran

• good
• history
• goodly

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences Alija Izetbegovic

• love
• men
• outlived

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. George Eliot

• expectation
• education
• life

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact thjat in times of stress "educated" people tend to come to the front; they are no more gifted than the others and their "education" is generally quite useless in itself, but they are accustomed to a certain amount of deference and consequently have the cheek necessary to a commander. George Orwell

• actionable
• troubling
• consequent

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences. Steig Larsson

• different
• sharing
• manly

Men like Caesar and Pompey--they're not heroes, Meto. They're monsters. They call their greed and ambition "honour," and to satisfy their so-called honour they'll tear the world apart. But who am I to judge them? Every man does what he must, to protect his share of the world. What's the difference between killing whole villages and armies, and killing a single man? Caesar's reasons and mine are different only in degree. The consequences and the suffering still spread to the innocent... Steven Saylor