Quotes about Consequence
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
— JC Ryle
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.
— Ayn Rand
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand
I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
— Al Gore
If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
— Mike Pence
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
— Henri de Lubac
I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
— William Goldman
I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.
— William Howard Taft
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
— William James