Quotes of: Unintended-consequences Keyword

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

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Michael R. LeGault

After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.

Ram Mohan

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Susanne Bier

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

Mariano Rajoy

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Noam Chomsky

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

Vernor Vinge

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

James F. Cooper

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.

Noah Feldman

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

Elizabeth Coleman

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

Sylvia Earle

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Toni Morrison