Consequences Quotes - page 2

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. (Lawrence Lessig)
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer. View quote
Michael Chabon
We are free to choose our actions,... but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. View quote
Stephen Covey
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. View quote
Keanu Reeves
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. View quote
Daniel J. Siegel
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. (Godfrey Reggio)
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. View quote
Helmut Jahn
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. View quote
Robert Dale Owen
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. View quote
Tim Holden
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own. View quote
John Adams
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. View quote
John Quincy Adams
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice. View quote
William Hazlitt
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. (George Soros)
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. View quote
George Soros
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. View quote
George Eliot
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. View quote
Ayn Rand