Consequence Quotes

• The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Responsibility
  • Behavior
  • Consequence

• Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Behavior
  • Principles

• Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Sports
  • Equality
  • Despite

• The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Intelligent
  • Accepting
  • Approach

• The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Father
  • Past
  • Running

• Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. Margaret Thatcher takes away the nourishment of the nation.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Imagine
  • Ministers
  • Milk

• Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Wisdom
  • Right
  • Consequence

• I'm trying to honestly do what I want to do, in the most honest way, and not worry about the consequences, because what's the worst thing that can happen? People don't like it, I go home. I'm not going to get hung by my thumbs. And as long as I don't read the reviews or care about what people say on a website or worry about those kind of things, then I'll probably be very happy.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Happy
  • Worry
  • Honest

• There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.

  

  Geeta Rao Gupta
  • Health
  • Significant
  • Pakistan

• Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Consequence
  • Gender
  • Imitation

• It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Problem
  • Humans
  • Regret

• Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

  

  Mo Udall
  • Women
  • Consequence
  • Reform

• I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Consequence
  • Pregnant
  • Ejaculation

• There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Community
  • Reason

• Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Lovers
  • Consequence
  • Mathematicians

• We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Economy
  • Consumption
  • Emissions

• What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • World
  • Matter
  • Consequence

• We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Action
  • Consequence

• Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Violence
  • Years
  • Accepted

• My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Thinking
  • Consequence
  • Consistency

• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Motivational
  • Entrepreneur
  • Express

• So she ignored Mrs. Arbuthnot's remark and raised forefinger, and said with marked coldness—at least, she tried to make it sound marked— that she supposed they would be going to breakfast, and that she had had hers; but it was her fate that however coldly she sent forth her words they came out sounding quite warm and agreeable. That was because she had a sympathetic and delightful voice, due entirely to some special formation of her throat and the roof of her mouth, and having nothing whatever to do with what she was feeling. Nobody in consequence ever believed they were being snubbed. It was most tiresome. And if she stared icily it did not look icy at all, because her eyes, lovely to begin with, had the added loveliness of very long, soft, dark eyelashes. No icy stare could come out of eyes like that; it got caught and lost in the soft eyelashes, and the persons stared at merely thought they were being regarded with a flattering and exquisite attentiveness. And if ever she was out of humour or definitely cross— and who would not be sometimes in such a world?—-she only looked so pathetic that people all rushed to comfort her, if possible by means of kissing. It was more than tiresome, it was maddening. Nature was determined that she should look and sound angelic. She could never be disagreeable or rude without being completely misunderstood.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Eyes
  • Voice
  • Fate

• Gravity is not an option in string theory. It is a logical consequence of it!

  

  Nathan Seiberg
  • Option
  • Consequence
  • Gravity

• American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • Country
  • Sometimes

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