Consequence Quotes - Page 20

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Orson Scott Card

Errors, Essence, Training

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.19, Macmillan

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...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

Julian Barnes

Philosophical, Thinking, Decision

Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.48, Random House

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In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

Alija Izetbegovic

Good Intentions, Intention

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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.

Holly Black

Done With You, Wells, Being Afraid

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1586, Macmillan

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It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

Colin Wilson

Loss, Boredom, Feelings

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The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

Orson Scott Card

Choices, Community, Survival

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Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

Susanna Clarke

Horse, Book, Mean

Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.677, Bloomsbury Publishing

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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

Atul Gawande

People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

Sergei Lukyanenko

Girl, Mistake, Car

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Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.

Sheldon Vanauken

Night, Water, Fetch

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There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Anne Holm

Faults

Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

Nick Harkaway

Secret, Desire, Democracy

Nick Harkaway (2012). “The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World”, p.145, Vintage

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As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

Scott Lynch

Decision, Maps, Biographies

Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.801, Del Rey

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You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

Max Brooks

Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

James A. Owen

Knowing, Choices, Bears

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You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.

Susane Colasanti

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Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

Nicholas Sparks

People, Worry, Criminals

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Mark Twain

Thinking, Long, Want

Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

Kim Harrison

Savages, Backyards, Fairy

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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

Franz Kafka

Fighting, Artist, Understanding

Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.

Baron de Montesquieu

Writing, Attention, Care

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Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

Richard Dawkins

Christian, Atheist, Mean

Richard Dawkins (2009). “The God Delusion”, p.328, Random House

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He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

Leo Tolstoy

Strong, Lying, Passion

Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aylmer Maude (1937). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: Anna Karénina, tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude”

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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

Edgar Allan Poe

Regret, Wish, Desire

Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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