#consequence

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#consequences #law #pause #permitting #perspective

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences. ↗

— John Sununu

#away #consequences #focused #go #go away

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#consequences #cultural #generations #hence #most

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#bit #classics #consequences #five #him

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#available #cannot #consequences #food #into

There are no good choices, Allison," Kanin offered in a quiet voice. "There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#choices-and-consequences #kanin #change

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#free-will #prophecy #change

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#consequences-truth #lies #change

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bravery #commitment #consequences #courage #courageous

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#war #death