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Quotes About Consequence

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
~ Samuel Johnson
It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you choose your own way, you lose your happiness
~ Sunday Adelaja
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
~ Nathaniel Branden
The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.
~ Rick Riordan
our tomorrow isshaped by the choices we make today, consciously or unconsciously
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
Indifference is the dead weight of history.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.
~ Hermann Goring
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
~ Patrick Henry
At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We cannot escape history.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.
~ Sylvia Earle
It's up to history to judge.
~ Pol Pot
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
~ Norman Mailer
History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
~ Orson Scott Card
History! Read it and weep!
~ Kurt Vonnegut
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
~ James Lee Burke
Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.
~ James Scott Bell
A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.
~ Mike Tindall
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
~ William Safire
It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.
~ Fuyumi Soryo