Consequences Quotes

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
Columba Bush

Heart, Addiction, Seen

Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan

Marriage, Woman, Goes

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Human, Seems, Intentions

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck

Pain, Desire, Lies

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger

Opinion, Public, Leaders

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Women, Great, Men

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

War, May, Against

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
Katherine Heigl

Mistakes, Bad, Someone

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Men, Wise, Logical

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Marshall McLuhan

Technology, Personal, Social

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
Peter Tosh

Politician, Suffer

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life, Simple, Brain

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. Somerset Maugham

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

Again, Act, Affect

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Alfred A. Montapert

Nobody, Choices, Escape

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.
Charles Stanley

Lord, Whether, Fail

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
Bryan Adams

Life, Hard, Trying

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Try, Easy, Escape

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

Happen, America, Decisions

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton

Revolution, American, Events

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
Charles Stanley

Life, Live, Able

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Augustus Hare

May, Action, Silent

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
Madeleine Albright

Hope, Greatest, Wrong

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
William Ralph Inge

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
Whoopi Goldberg

Power, Strength, Away

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch

Balance, Choices

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
Pat Robertson

Life, Nature, Person

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
Scott Adams

Fear, Long, Frustrated

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Philip K. Dick

Ordinary, Heroic, Resistance

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