Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
~By Andrew Denton ~
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
~By Allen Klein ~
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.
~By Marsha Sinetar ~
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
~By Rex Hunt ~
But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
~By Herman Kahn ~
We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.
~By Arthur Seyss Inquart ~
Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
~By Natalie Portman ~
What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
~By Josiah Stamp ~
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
~By Albert Bandura ~
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
~By Elizabeth Montagu ~
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
~By John Olver ~
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
~By Denis Waitley ~
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
~By Charles Seymour ~
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
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.
~By George Soros ~
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.
~By Philip K. Dick ~
There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
~By Lynda Barry ~
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.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
~By Aaron Hill ~
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
~By Harry Browne ~
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
~By Sherwood Eddy ~
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
~By David Blunkett ~
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
~By Vince Cable ~
One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
~By John Doolittle ~
Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
~By Roland Allen ~
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~By Sivananda ~
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
~By Steig Larsson ~
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
Everything we do has consequences.
~By Dennis Potter ~
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
~By William Falconer ~
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
~By Thomas Paine ~
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
~By Howard Berman ~
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
~By Eric Hobsbawm ~
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
~By Helen Rowland ~
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
~By Winston Churchill ~
It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
~By Warren Christopher ~
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
~By John F. Kerry ~
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
~By Oliver Stone ~
If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences.
~By Richard Richards ~
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
~By Lord Acton ~
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
~By Richard Schickel ~
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
~By Chester W. Nimitz ~
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
~By Tipper Gore ~
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
~By Michael Jordan ~
Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
~By Rafik Hariri ~
What you do as president has consequences.
~By Steve Forbes ~
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
~By David Suzuki ~
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
~By Norman Cousins ~
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
~By Donna Tartt ~
If you do something, expect consequences.
~By Larry King ~
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.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
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.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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.
~By Tim Holden ~
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!
~By Rudolph A. Marcus ~
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
~By Tommy Franks ~
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
~By Larry Elder ~
In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
~By Donna Rice ~
When the toddler does something and there are consequences for his action civilization begins.
~By Alicia F. Lieberman ~
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
~By Gaylord Nelson ~
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.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
~By Evan R. Wood ~
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
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