#sequences

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #does #dwelling #fashions #goods

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #consists #wisdom

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

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#consequences #culture #institution #intelligence #located

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#consequences #country #disperse #energies #honor

Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy. ↗

— Daniel Clausen

#consequences #decisions #happiness #problems #sadness

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

Unless you interfere with your belief system, which is where you make most of your decisions, you will recreate the status quo. ↗

— Brian Klemmer

#choices-and-consequences #change