Consequences Quotes
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The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
Phil Bredesen -
Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.
Cressida Cowell
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Ideas have consequences that can transform society.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego -
What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.
Ernesto Zedillo -
Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences.
Stephen Dobyns -
Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.
Brenna Yovanoff -
We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.
Niki Tsongas -
More and more, acting involves a serious chunk of autobiography and often what we’re talking about is trauma. We long for these experiences in the theatre, for someone to be torn apart in front of us. We always have. Theatre’s at it’s best when it has that, but there are consequences to it.
Paul Rhys
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Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.
Hannah Arendt -
I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf -
The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
Moliere -
Elections have consequences.
Scott Garrett -
Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.
Brandon Mull -
Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.
Molly Bloom
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
Stieg Larsson -
If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?
Bob Proctor -
...you have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it came to the things that mattered.
Brenna Yovanoff -
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
Tim Ferriss -
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Stieg Larsson -
What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.
Mitchell Reiss