Quotes of: Consequently Keyword

As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.

Anita Shreve

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Oliver Stone

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Wyndham Lewis

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

Yingluck Shinawatra

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I don't really remember making a decision. I don't remember thinking to myself, "Yes, I will do this," or, "No, I will not do that." They tell you what to do, and you do it. You don't reflect on it. You don't ponder its meaning. You don't explore its...

The Book of Jonas

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where o...

Blindness

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how...

An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.

The mind of Caesar. It is the reverse of most men's. It rejoices in committing itself. To us arrive each day a score of challenges; we must say yes or no to decisions that will set off chains of consequences. Some of us deliberate; some of us refuse ...

The Ides of March

The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making; the internal shutdown of vulnerability. Vulnerability is our susceptibilit...

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is ...

Philip K. Dick

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.

Doing My Part

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.

The Gamecocks

Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences.

The Gemini Effect: Deception: Book Three

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Angle of Repose

Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.

Touched with Sight

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

Hilary Mantel

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Oscar Wilde

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

Orrin Woodward

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

Susan Sontag