Consequences Quotes
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?
I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.
Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.
People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.
My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.
Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?
There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.
Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.
Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.
He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.
We are condemned to be free people, liberated people who must make life-defining decisions. Freedom requires choices and all choices entail value decisions.
One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.
Over the years I have realized it's not the people who come into your life but the choices they force you to make gives the direction to your life.
Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.
Define your life, Define your world, Define your passions, Define your goals.
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.
No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa’s Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.
I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t, and now I must face the consequences.
To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all the time can find disadvantages and it's own consequences.
I’m not going to answer that because it’s ridiculous. I love you, Lainey. I've loved you from the day I met you, if not before, and I've loved you every day since. How could you even doubt that?
We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.
He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.
It is better to tell the truth and face the punishment, than to lie and face the consequences.
