Quotes About Consequences

#1. She understood the risks, the limits, the possible consequences, and she was willing to accept all of that in return for the sheer joy of being with him. One night with him ... one hundred ... whatever fate allowed her, she would take.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.

Terry Brooks

#3. Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.

George Soros

#4. 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 consequences.

Norman Cousins

#5. 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, and poorer educational outcomes.

Marian Wright Edelman

#6. Superheroes are works of fiction - created by individuals to hold up humanity's finest attributes and remind us that the choices we make in life have profound consequences. They also embody some of the qualities we aspire to, and as such, we can learn a great deal from them.

Anonymous

#7. I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others. We must assume responsibility for those consequences.

John Sheridan

#8. Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions ... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich Hayek

#9. Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small ... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.

Tom Wigley

#10. Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.

Thomas Ligotti

#11. Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

Stieg Larsson

#12. A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

William Faulkner

#13. Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

Carly Fiorina

#14. I would rather live with the consequences of my failures than live in regret without ever trying.

Bryan Nyaude

#15. My daddy taught me to always do the right thing, no matter what the consequences. When I would ask how I was supposed to know what was right, he'd just say, 'You'll know.' He was right, and so is this.

Bruce A. Borders

#16. Friendship is a choice. more to the point, it is a series of ongoing choices, with consequences for each person.

Kelly McClymer

#17. We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Neil Gaiman

#18. We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Sean Covey

#19. A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

Helmut Jahn

#20. One of the consequences of such notions as 'entitlements' is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Thomas Sowell

#21. Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

Bertrand Russell

#23. When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

David Atwood

#24. Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Epictetus

#25. The evil you create will ultimately destroy you, you cannot escape the consequences of your actions. - Leon Brown

Aleatha Romig

#26. Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

Sergei Lavrov

#27. If you do something, expect consequences.

Larry King

#28. The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Tess Gerritsen

#29. The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.

Albert Shanker

#30. Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Marsha Sinetar

#31. And I also know that loving someone - even when it's scary, even when there are consequences - is never the wrong thing to do.

Cassandra Clare

#32. I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Ani DiFranco

#33. This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

Denis De Rougemont

#34. In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.

Daniel Kahneman

#35. Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

J.M. Coetzee

#36. Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Noam Chomsky

#37. Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

Lawrence Solomon

#38. Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Aristotle.

#39. The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

Barack Obama

#40. The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

Alan Greenspan

#41. (As Plato There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

Rebecca Goldstein

#42. In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

Laura Poitras

#43. There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#44. Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.
Wisdom, like its rewards, is great.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. They have feared the gods, as they should, for gods are a bunch of sodden bastards. For a man who does not fear them, does not fear the terrible consequences. If mortals fail, gods fall.

Alaric Longward

#46. To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#47. I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

Ron Suskind

#48. A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

Denis Waitley

#49. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court.

Patrick Leahy

#50. One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.

C.D. Payne

#51. There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

Gene Luen Yang

#52. A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences ... " Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man.

Joe Abercrombie

#53. You back a man in a corner, you gotta bear the consequences when he does what he has to do to fight his way out.

Kristen Ashley

#54. This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

John Sununu

#55. It's true that we are free to do whatever we want, even go to France on a whim. We can make any choice we want. We can do anything we want. We just have to not care about consequences.

Maureen F. McHugh

#56. Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused ... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences ... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Taryn Simon

#57. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

Gary Zukav

#58. Lifelong boundaries in the area of food make our lives better because they keep us safe. Yes, they cramp our style, but you know what? Our style needs to be cramped because there are consequences to eating what we want when we want.

Barb Raveling

#59. That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.

Michael Lewis

#60. I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

Alberto Gonzales

#61. Good, bad, they're just words. Who's to decide what is good or bad? In the end, only the consequences matter.

Denise Grover Swank

#62. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required periodic exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences. Will

Libba Bray

#63. Actions have consequences. Kids today don't think about that. It's like, 'Hey, wouldn't this be awesome?!' Consequences? What are those?

Theodore Jerome Cohen

#64. In a culture where life was short, decisions had to be made in a hurry. You would never have enough time, might never live to see the consequences of a wrong action - or a correct one. On Query, it was different.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#65. Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#66. [It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

George Eliot

#67. Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Les Brown

#68. Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.

Tim O'Brien

#69. We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Peter Singer

#70. No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.

Robert Harris

#71. I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences.

Christine Lagarde

#72. It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

#73. The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

Eric Alterman

#74. I loved you recklessly from the moment I knew you. I never cared about the consequences. I told myself I did, I told myself you wanted me to, and so I tried, but I never did. I wanted you more than I wanted to be good. I wanted you more than I wanted anything, ever.

Cassandra Clare

#75. In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.

Mary Roach

#76. To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#77. Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.

Hillary Clinton

#78. A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

Gary Zukav

#79. In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Donna Rice

#80. God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#81. Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.

Josh McDowell

#82. Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

Daniel J. Siegel

#83. I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

Usain Bolt

#84. Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Thomas Huxley

#85. I am not a politician ... I only suffer the consequences.

Peter Tosh

#86. All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrecoverable, and love was simple and even pain had the dignity of enduring forever: it was unimaginable that time could do anything to diminish it.

James Baldwin

#87. The self is ... a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.

Rebecca Solnit

#88. The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to.

Charles Yu

#89. Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

Ellen Key

#90. Choices and consequences come in package deals. When we make a choice, we ignite the consequences that can come along with it.

Lysa TerKeurst

#91. After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.

Mary Lambert

#92. Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

Ralph Merkle

#93. A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [ ... ] But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity.

Paul Driessen

#94. Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

Morris L. West

#95. Everyone has choices. You make them and then you live with the consequences.

David Baldacci

#96. Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences.

J.V. Hart

#97. When a decision is inevitable you may as well take it as quick as possible so that you still have something left to deal with whatever consequences may arise.

Mark Lawrence

#98. We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

Ron Kovic

#99. I'll praise Glaucon for the rest of the book as the guy who got it right - the guy who realized that the most important principle for designing an ethical society is to make sure that everyone's reputation is on the line all the time, so that bad behavior will always bring bad consequences.

Jonathan Haidt

#100. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden