#sequence

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#care #consequences #friends #fun #have fun

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#cab driver #car #did #driver #driving

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#goal #must #success #success is

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#celebrity #consequence #curious #i #minor

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

#each #error #first #first law #folly

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. ↗

— Jack Welch

#choices #consequences #make #such #them

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. ↗

— James Wolcott

#even #life #momentous #most #owner

Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#again #being #choreographed #dance #doing

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic