Consequence Quotes - Page 14

• You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Decision

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• Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.

  Cornel West

  Beautiful, Self Worth, Views

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2011

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• Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.

  Ishmael Beah

  Hurt, War, Trusting Each Other

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• Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Mad, Fantasy, Desperation

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.176, The Overlook Press

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• It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Responsibility, Men, Omnipotence

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• For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

  Ray Bradbury

  Responsibility, Up To You, Too Late

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• Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

  William Goldman

  Disappointment, Used, Knows

  "The Princess Bride", 1987.

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• All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Responsibility, Loss, Choices

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Lying, Men, Clouds

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• Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Love, Ambition, Men

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• We’re not that strong anymore. (Hades) Oops, guess I screwed up. Inability to see the consequences of our thoughtless acts must run in the family. So much for my father being a god of prophecy, huh? (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Strong, Father

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.13, Macmillan

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• That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Fall, Trumpets

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

  Brandon Mull

  Growing Up, Mistake, Choices

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• at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for what. "Asshole!" she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two.

  Paul Neilan

  Honesty, Blood, Two

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• We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")

  Wendell Berry

  Ambition, America, Fit

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• So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Tea, World

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.91

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• I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

  Thomas Mann

  Home, Artist, Two

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.131, Vintage

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• Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Passion, Three

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.64, Vintage

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• There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Mean, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.26, Random House

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• I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

  Alice Munro

  Men, Absurd, Feels

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 18, 2010

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• Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.

  Robert Fulghum

  Rain, Fire, Earth

  Robert Fulghum (1992). “It was on fire when I lay down on it”, Random House Inc

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• Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Actions Have Consequences

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• I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

  John Irving

  Eye, Past, Views

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Beautiful, War, Men

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• It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Past, Thinking, Cake

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