Consequence Quotes

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

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.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

Do right. Risk the consequences.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Everything we do has consequences.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence.

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.

In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really, every time it pops up, it's very strange.

That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

We do have the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that's an enforcement consequence, action for action, follow on. We have a plan, we will watch them, we will be vigilant.