Consequence Quotes - Page 21

• The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Amulets, Samarkand, Enjoy

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

  Paul Valery

  Change, Positive, Carpe Diem

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• We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a
  consequence of what we have become.

  David Hawkins

  Motivational, Positive, Spiritual

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• Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

  Livy

  Time, Spring, Events

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXVII. 9, (pp. 815-816), 1922.

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• Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences.
  There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
  On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Friendship, Business

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• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  Harry Browne

  Inspirational, Suffering, Ifs

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• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.229

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• Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

  Benjamin Graham

  Hope, Time, Money

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Sacrifice, Forgiving

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• Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Law, Democracy

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• To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

  Ernest Renan

  Freedom, Writing, Men

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• History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

  Etienne Gilson

  History, Historical, Tests

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• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Roots, Mind

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• It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Inspiration, Parenting

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.178

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• Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Thinking, Odin

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• Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Prayer, Philosophical, Religion

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.

  William O. Douglas

  Taken, Government, Secret

  "Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 12, 1966.

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• 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

  Strength, Giving, Acting

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• Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Kissing, Emergencies

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• In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

  Pope John XXIII

  Truth, Rights, Justice

  'Pacem in Terris' (1963)

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• They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Light, Broken

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• What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Change, Feelings, Environmental

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• We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Running, Time, Believe

  Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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• I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind.
  It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper.
  As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Powerful, Equality, Suffering

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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