Consequences Quotes

• Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Love Is
  • Consequences
  • Recompense

• To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Consequences
  • Craft

• In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.

  

  Albert Belle
  • Consequences
  • Upset
  • Overreact

• It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Respect
  • Consequences
  • Exists

• 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
  • Happens
  • Consequences
  • Novels

• Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Ideas
  • Consequences
  • Erroneous

• Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Question
  • Choices
  • Consequences

• Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.

  

  Adam Frank
  • Civilization
  • Project
  • Consequences

• Although I'm up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing with big questions and possibilities of all sorts of stories with life and death consequences is enthralling and exhilarating to me.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Passion
  • Horror
  • Possibilities

• Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Consequences

• My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Mind
  • Guns
  • Dislike

• Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Die
  • Democracy
  • Breathe

• Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

  

  George Eliot
  • Actions
  • Consequences
  • Excuses

• Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

  

  Nikolaas Tinbergen
  • Result
  • Conditions
  • Consequences

• It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you’d like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.

  

  Angela Thomas
  • Compassion
  • Consequences
  • Judgement

• There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Rules
  • Happen
  • Consequences

• Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

  

  Celia Green
  • Research
  • Risks
  • Incalculable

• Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

  

  John Ross Bowie
  • Attention
  • Consequences
  • Joke

• We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

  

  Ashlyn Harris
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Question
  • Ignore
  • Consequences

• Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.

  

  George Holyoake
  • Passion
  • Thought
  • Error

• Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness.

  

  Bertrand Meyer
  • Practice
  • Values
  • Consequences

• The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Authority
  • Consequences
  • Affairs

• Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Teacher

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