Consequence Quotes - Page 18

• That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

  C. S. Lewis

  Death, Wisdom, People

  "A Grief Observed". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1961.

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• Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

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• There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

  Eoin Colfer

  Alternatives, Fowl, Bears

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• There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

  Rachel Caine

  Giving Up, Moving, Thinking

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath”, p.232, Allison & Busby

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• "Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Wine, Heaven

  "The Importance of Being Earnest".

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• He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him. Galloran had been in this same situation and had made the right choice. Jason felt less alone. Malodor had claimed that his opponents had no heroes among them. But Galloran was proof to the contrary. And Jason would be evidence as well. p. 420

  Brandon Mull

  Hero, Choices, Jason

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• I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Pride

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• You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

  Zadie Smith

  Live Life, Action, Creatures

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.86, Vintage

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• Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom of a particular culture or tribe. It is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Opportunity, Games

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.211, Penguin

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• The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decision, Life Is, Made

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.705, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

  Tim LaHaye

  Order, Followers, Sin

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• The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Errors, Essence, Training

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.19, Macmillan

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• ...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

  Julian Barnes

  Philosophical, Thinking, Decision

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.48, Random House

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• In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Good Intentions, Intention

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• This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.

  Holly Black

  Done With You, Wells, Being Afraid

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1586, Macmillan

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• It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

  Colin Wilson

  Loss, Boredom, Feelings

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• The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Community, Survival

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• Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

  Susanna Clarke

  Horse, Book, Mean

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.677, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Girl, Mistake, Car

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• Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Night, Water, Fetch

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• 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.

  Anne Holm

  Faults

  Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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• A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

  Nick Harkaway

  Secret, Desire, Democracy

  Nick Harkaway (2012). “The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World”, p.145, Vintage

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