Quotes on Consequences

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.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim

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.

Author: Margaret Atwood

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.

Author: Javier Bardem

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Author: Bruce Barton

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.

Author: Paul Cellucci

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.

Author: Chanakya

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.

Author: Len Dawson

Consequences are unpitying.

Author: George Eliot

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

Author: Raymond Feist

What you do as president has consequences.

Author: Steve Forbes

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

Author: Rafik Hariri

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Author: Eric Hobsbawm

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Author: William Inge

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

Author: Arthur Inquart

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

Author: Helmut Jahn

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

Author: C. James

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Author: John Kerry

If you do something, expect consequences.

Author: Larry King

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.

Author: Allen Klein

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

Author: Karl Kraus

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Author: Steig Larsson

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.

Author: Stanislaw Lem

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Author: Lawrence Lessig

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

Author: Bob Matsui

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Author: W. Maugham

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.

Author: Lord Milner

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

Author: Bob Ney

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Author: P. O'Rourke

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

Author: James Otis

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.

Author: William Perry

Everything we do has consequences.

Author: Dennis Potter

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

Author: Richard Schickel

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Author: George Shaw

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

Author: Layne Staley

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Author: Josiah Stamp

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.

Author: Robert Sternberg

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Author: Robert Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Author: Robert Stevenson

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Author: Peter Tosh

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

Author: Lech Walesa

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

Author: David Wallace

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Author: Margaret Wheatley

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.

Author: James Wilson

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

Author: Evan Wood

The decisions we make today shape the tomorrow we will inherit.

Author: Cassandra Parker

Life is a canvas populated by brushstrokes of choices and colors of consequences.

Author: Sofia Martinez

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to understand the courses which can transform our lives.

Author: Margaret Wheatley