Quotes About Consequence

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

You know what I do? I steal things. Fuck 'em! I grab a handful of candy bars and six magazines and head for the gate.

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.

Tom's mind was set to the expectation of the worst that could happen—not death, but disgrace.

The Rubicon, we know, was a very insignificant stream to look at; its significance lay entirely in certain invisible conditions.

No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

An important consequence of giving highest priority to the metaphor of Moral Strength is that it rules out any explanations in terms of social forces or social class.

Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.

I do try to think if I can afford not to do something I don't want to do, and if I can, then I don't do it, that's for sure. But the consequence of that is that you can be unemployed, it can make you feel ghastly, because you wonder if you will ever work again.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.

Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of millennia to come. But a few hundred million years from now, barring a fix by our descendants, this relentless heating will substantially change Earth's biosphere in ways that might not be survivable for us.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.