Top 1200 Suffering The Consequences Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is suffering. I would gladly give myself to be cut up into pieces if that would ease his suffering." Such is the love of God for people. He pitied people so much that he wanted to suffer for them, like their own mother, and even more. But no one can understand this great love without the grace of the Holy Spirit.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.

My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.

The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. The suffering has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African-Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm's winds and floods. I believe that kind of disparate impact is morally wrong in this, the richest country in the world.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economists sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups

I grew up in a family that was aware of the consequences of diabetes.

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may become debtor to you. And even if sufferings had no other reward than being able to bear something for that God who loves you, is not this a great reward and a sufficient remuneration? Whoever loves, understands what I say.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help others to take responsibility for themselves. Help them to see how they are creating their own suffering. Every now and then, you will encounter innocent ones who are suffering through no fault of their own, particularly animals and children. Do not hesitate! Help them.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

The consequences of poor nutrition and a lack of exercise are serious.

My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.