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 ~
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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 ~
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.
~By Amanullah Khan ~
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
~By Jared Diamond ~
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 ~
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
~By Bryan Adams ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
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 ~
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
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 ~
Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
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 ~
If you do something, expect consequences.
~By Larry King ~
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
~By Eric Braeden ~
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 ~
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.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
~By Josiah Stamp ~
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
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 ~
Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.
~By Len Dawson ~
I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
~By Henry Knox ~
We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
~By Lawrence Kohlberg ~
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 ~
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.
~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
~By Joseph Butler ~
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
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 ~
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.
~By George Soros ~
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 ~
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
~By Peter Singer ~
If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
~By Stanislaw Lem ~
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
~By James Otis ~
Consequences are unpitying.
~By George Eliot ~
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
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.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What you do as president has consequences.
~By Steve Forbes ~
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
~By Sidney Hook ~
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
~By James F. Cooper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
~By C. L. R. James ~
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
~By Chanakya ~
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
~By Omar Bongo ~
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
~By John Sununu ~
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
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 ~
I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.
~By Mark Roberts ~
Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.
~By Marsha Sinetar ~
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
~By Francis Wright ~
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
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 ~
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.
~By Javier Bardem ~
So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
~By Pat Boone ~
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
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 ~
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
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 ~
Everything we do has consequences.
~By Dennis Potter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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