George Eliot Quotes

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

George Eliot

• Consequences
• One Thing
• Defiance

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• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• 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.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • High
  • Want
  • Matter

• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Build
  • Consequences
  • Pattern

• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Country
  • Drama

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

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Consequences
  • Probability

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Moral
  • Forget
  • Consequences

• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Language
  • Consequences

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Always
  • Made
  • One Thing

• Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Future
  • Law
  • Picture

• It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

  

  Oliver North
  • Doing
  • Say
  • One Thing

• If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are prevented from acquiring or using these weapons themselves.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Now
  • Weapons
  • Consequences

• Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Taxes
  • Consequences

• Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Club
  • Belong
  • One Thing

• One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • One Thing

• One thing you cannot control is nature.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Nature
  • Control
  • One Thing

• No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Killing
  • Consequences
  • Resolved

• If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Equal

• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Decision
  • Leaving

• Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Men
  • Business

• ... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

  

  George Eliot
  • Consequences
  • One Thing
  • Defiance