Consequence Quotes - Page 22

• History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

  Etienne Gilson

  History, Historical, Tests

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• Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Writing, Epidemics

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• Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Choices, Our Choices

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• Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

  Marie Lu

  Love, Able, Should

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• Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

  Brandon Mull

  Decision, Important, Tools

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.1121, Simon and Schuster

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• And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.39, Knopf

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• WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Doubt, Guilt, Shame

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cost

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• Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe.

  Amish Tripathi

  Journey, Faithful, Way

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• Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Evil, Doe, Done

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.535, Macmillan

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• The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

  David Mitchell

  Kindness, Eye, Past

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• I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

  Rachel Caine

  Sorry, Decision, Approval

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.562, Penguin

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• You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Boulders, Agonizing

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.116, Broadway Books

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• She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Pride, Opposites

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• Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Successful, Judging, Action

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.183, Macmillan

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• You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

  Anne Lamott

  Letting Go, Hurt, Children

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• The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, People, Tragedy

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

  Veronica Roth

  World, Factions, Wells

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• The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Amulets, Samarkand, Enjoy

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

  Paul Valery

  Change, Positive, Carpe Diem

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• We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a
  consequence of what we have become.

  David Hawkins

  Motivational, Positive, Spiritual

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• Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

  Livy

  Time, Spring, Events

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXVII. 9, (pp. 815-816), 1922.

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• Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences.
  There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
  On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Friendship, Business

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• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  Harry Browne

  Inspirational, Suffering, Ifs

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• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.229

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