Consequence Quotes - Page 4

• You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

  Tom Shadyac

  Apples, Tree, Sowing

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• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  Zadie Smith

  Moving, People, Paper

  "Love, actually" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2003.

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• I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Real, Government, Decision

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

  Layne Staley

  Drug, Use, Lasting

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• Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.

  Karl Rove

  Years, Debt, Kind

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• The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

  Rick Santorum

  Government, Two, Parent

  Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Suffering, Realization

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• The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

  Richard Schickel

  Years, Law, Perspective

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Presidential, Campaigns, Dry

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• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  B. F. Skinner

  Probability

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• Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Couple, Understanding, Break

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Olympia Snowe

  Cancer, Simple, Long

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• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  Susan Sontag

  Suicide, Sex, Thinking

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• There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Deeds, Intention

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• The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Law, Doe

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

  Charles Stanley

  Easter, Father, Air

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• I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

  Chris Martin

  Beauty, Ugly, Speak

  "The importance of being earnest". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2005.

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• There are fewer media writers in traditional settings. That is a beat that many legacy brands cannot afford. On the other hand technology writers are writing about media in ways they didn't before. As a consequence of the shift, there is less interest in many ways in the activities at some media. If you look at coverage of media as whole, the decision-making at the three broadcast networks and the cable channels, for instance, is much less of a focus than it once was. The guts of what goes on at Fox or CNN or MSNBC probably has less impact than it once did. It certainly gets less attention.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Writing, Technology, Focus

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• A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

  Spike Lee

  People, Choices, Way

  "Q&A: Spike Lee on 'Oldboy,' Remakes, Atonement & 'Inside Man 2'". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Promise, Folks, Liberalism

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• Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Work, Drug, Abuse

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Cnn

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• For each of our actions there are only consequences.

  James Lovelock

  Our Actions, Action

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• I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions

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• More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Responsibility, Impact

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