Consequence Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Helen Rowland

  Food, Men, Offering

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

  Marquis de Sade

  Change, Beautiful, Nature

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• In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Teaching, Ignorance

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• The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

  Rick Santorum

  Government, Two, Parent

  Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 8, 2011.

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• The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

  Jose Saramago

  Important, Way, Revolution

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Suffering, Realization

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• The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

  Richard Schickel

  Years, Law, Perspective

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

  Eric Schmidt

  Loss, Connections, Negative

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• The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

  Charles Schumer

  Matter, Administration, Domes

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• You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

  Tom Shadyac

  Apples, Tree, Sowing

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• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Presidential, Campaigns, Dry

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• To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Judging, Trying

  "Chew the Right Thing". Chew the Right Thing, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

  Peter Singer

  Knowing, Needs, World

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  B. F. Skinner

  Probability

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• Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Couple, Understanding, Break

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• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  Zadie Smith

  Moving, People, Paper

  "Love, actually" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2003.

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• 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.

  Olympia Snowe

  Cancer, Simple, Long

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• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  Susan Sontag

  Suicide, Sex, Thinking

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• 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.

  George Soros

  Country, Marijuana, Substance

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• I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Real, Government, Decision

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Deeds, Intention

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• The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Law, Doe

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

  Layne Staley

  Drug, Use, Lasting

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• The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

  Charles Stanley

  Easter, Father, Air

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• One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

  Charles Stanley

  Powerful, Lying, Believe

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