Top 100 No Consequence Quotes
#1. There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Amelia E. Barr
#2. If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
Abraham Lincoln
#4. We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.
Eleanor Catton
#5. His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
#6. Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
Fulton J. Sheen
#7. I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.
Peter Ackroyd
#8. What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.
Dean Koontz
#9. It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
Gore Vidal
#10. If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.
Jeffrey Archer
#11. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.
Frank Sonnenberg
#12. As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.
Celia Thaxter
#13. It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace
#14. It did no good to tell himself that it was all in his head if it went on happening anyway. His belief was not required; his disbelief of was no consequence.
Joe Hill
#15. If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
Aldo Leopold
#16. This lost, loose feeling that no consequence could be so harmful as the sense of staying where you were, or of being who you are.
Sarah Dessen
#17. A badulaque," said Espinoza, "is someone of no consequence. It's a word that can also be applied to fools, but there are fools of consequence, and badulaque applies only to fools of no consequence.
Roberto Bolano
#18. Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
Yoshida Kenko
#19. When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.
Gary Lloyd
#20. You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.
Mitchell Joachim
#21. There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.
Paul Weller
#22. To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.
Mark Twain
#23. No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.
R. Scott Bakker
#24. The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.
Jonathan Martin
#25. What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.
David Coverdale
#27. To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#28. We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
Ingrid Newkirk
#29. It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty is of no consequence because so many imbeciles share it.
Albert Camus
#30. People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.
George W. Buck
#31. Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..
Dixie Lee Ray
#32. What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small ... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
Philip K. Dick
#33. Western tourists transform Thailand into its own little planet of indulgence. Time has no relevance and debauchery, no consequence.
Maggie Young
#34. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.
Viktor E. Frankl
#35. It is of no consequence what people think of you. What matters is what you think of them.
Gore Vidal
#36. One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.
Edward Teller
#37. To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
Ernest Renan
#38. Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician.- G. A. Custer
Robert Asprin
#39. He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.
Cormac McCarthy
#40. I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
Jean Baudrillard
#42. On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
Matthew Arnold
#43. Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.
Jim Harrison
#44. The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.
Steve Berry
#45. A town that does not keep its dead out of sight, that leaves people where they died, on highways and byways, in parks and parking lots, is not a town but a hell. The fact that this hell reflects our life experience in a more realistic and essentially truer way is of no consequence.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#46. How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?
Ingrid Weir
#47. A king need be judged solely on the basis of what he achieves for his people. His personal life is of no consequence. His public life, though, has one singular purpose: to provide for his people and improve their lives.
Amish Tripathi
#48. It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley.
Joseph Malins
#49. They did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless. Naturally
Viktor E. Frankl
#50. I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Edward VII
#52. Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
Linda W. Yezak
#53. What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul. Apart from Christ, the rich and beautiful, and the poor and unlovely, will all end up in precisely the same misery.
Kelly Minter
#54. When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
Jaron Lanier
#55. People are taken much too seriously. one equals no one. anything less than two hundred at a time is not worth mentioning. of course, anybody can be of a different opinion. an opinion is of no consequence whatever. any level-headed man can level headedly adopt two or three different opinions.
Bertolt Brecht
#56. What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#57. Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
R. B. Kitaj
#58. Time was of no consequence and I just hoped that eternity would start now. The person I used to be had suddenly ceased to exist. I was melting and being remodeled into nothing but the hand he was just holding right now.
Amira Aly
#59. As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you.
Paula Hawkins
#60. Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
Joyce Carol Oates
#61. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
D.J. MacHale
#62. There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
Samuel Smiles
#63. Enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by
Jane Austen
#64. This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.
Michael Lewis
#65. There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. What you call looking like an idiot are splashes of mediatic splendor that give shine to your personality and make you more human, more likable. If ethical and aesthetic principles no longer exist, looking like an idiot disappears as a consequence.
Niccolo Ammaniti
#67. I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
Yves Chauvin
#68. She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.
Matt Haig
#69. This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!
Nick Moran
#70. The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
#71. True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.
George Eliot
#72. bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.
Jim Bishop
#73. Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.
William Thomas Councilman
#74. For today we hear seemingly normal people, even those with a level head on their shoulders, blithely speaking of love as though it were some frothy feeling of no real consequence.
Pauline Reage
#75. To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
David Viscott
#76. There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.
Mark Shields
#77. We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.
Pete Domenici
#78. What did love mean if it was doled out so carelessly, with no thought of consequence?
Damon Galgut
#79. No, she who rides the tiger can never dismount!
Dave Duncan
#80. There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
Reese Witherspoon
#81. Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything which interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal
Arthur W. Pink
#82. It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.
Elias Hicks
#83. It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.
Marcus Aurelius
#84. If all properly economic problems were solved once for all ... the social struggle and strife would ... [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity ... in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.
Frank Knight
#85. Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.
Charles Brent
#86. There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.
Anne Kearney
#87. Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn't matter. Right now, being with him seemed worth whatever consequence could come from it. This was right, like it was meant to be. There was no logical explanation for it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#88. You want to be loved without risking consequence, so you reach out to get the attention you need while enjoying the luxury of taking no responsibility for those words." I
Penelope Douglas
#89. without being able to arrive at its end, then, O Sanjaya, I had no hope of success. When I heard that Yudhishthira, beaten by Saubala at the game of dice and deprived of his kingdom as a consequence thereof, had still been attended upon by his brothers of
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#90. Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#91. A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
W. Somerset Maugham
#92. Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.
Richard Branson
#93. People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.
Benjamin Franklin
#94. Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.
Jon Hamm
#95. Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less fair for having missed the applause it deserved.
Pliny The Younger
#96. You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.
Adrian Rogers
#97. I think Pakistan was not a factor in terms of decision India to obtain nuclear weapon. Because there was no talk of Pakistan having any capability. The main factor was China. And the international prestige that China was getting as a consequence of having its own nuclear weapons.
Subramanian Swamy
#98. There is no right or wrong, no good or bad, only natural and unnatural, only cause and consequence.
Girish Kohli
#99. Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
Joseph Addison
#100. The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.
Ayn Rand
