William Faulkner Quotes

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

William Faulkner

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• 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

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• 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

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Language
  • Consequences

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Experience

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Death
  • Woman
  • Gentleman

• The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Gentleman

• I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • Style

• No lady is ever a gentleman.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Gentleman

• When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Personal

• Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mother
  • Courage
  • Virtues

• I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Money
  • Think
  • Stop

• At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Women
  • School
  • Anti-magnet

• Time is making fools of us again.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fools
  • Time Is

• A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Gentleman
  • Consequences
  • Responsibly