Ramifications Quotes

• There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Decisions We Make, People, Connections

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, Years, Understanding

  "Katherine Heigl Gets Real". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 20, 2010.

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• It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

  Christy Turlington

  Marijuana, Smoking, Dying

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• You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Deep Thought, Know Yourself

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• I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Data, Decision, Needs

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• When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Selfish, Responsibility, Reality

  Ayelet Waldman (2013). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

  Virginia Foxx

  Running, Long, Serious

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• The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Thinking, Heaven

  "What Makes the Christian Message Unique?". Interview with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com.

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• The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

  Tim Holden

  Powerful, Responsibility, Racism

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• When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

  Carl Levin

  War, Impact, Years

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• I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

  Ehud Olmert

  Retirement, Thinking

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• Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Roots, People, Principles

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

  Tracey Gold

  Eye, Actors, Tabloids

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• We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

  Eric Kripke

  Butterfly, Past, Causes

  "Timeless: Showrunners preview NBC time-travel series". Interview with Shirley Li, ew.com. September 29, 2016.

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• The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight he has invented for his characters - in the juxtaposition of those characters and in the lifelike ramifications of the ensemble they make: their density, their substantiality, their lived existence actualized in all its nuanced particulars, is in fact his thought metabolized.

  Philip Roth

  Lying, Character, Novelists

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Stress, Dark, Technology

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Believe, Broken

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.304, OUP Oxford

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• If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Funny, Running, Dumb

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• American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.

  Liz W. Garcia

  Mean, Responsibility, Creating

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Emotional, Thinking, Remember You

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• Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

  George Clinton

  Fun, Mind, Done

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• Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

  Seth Godin

  Curiosity, Firsts, Facts

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• London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.

  Nick Cohen

  Real, Land, Ideas

  "At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Brother, Fighting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.80, Scholastic UK

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• We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only significant choice we will have will be how we adjust to this new regime. That choice - not whether, but how to reduce energy usage and make a transition to renewable alternatives - will have profound ethical and political ramifications.

  Richard Heinberg

  Years, Profound, Choices

  Richard Heinberg (2005). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, p.6, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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