Top 1200 Suffering The Consequences Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.

You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as dogs are. Few people feel sympathy for rats. Yet rats are intelligent animals, and there can be no doubt that rats are capable of suffering and do suffer from countless painful experiments performed on them. If the army were to stop experiments on dogs and switch to rats instead, we should not be any less concerned.

Weaknesses are part of human nature. What matters are the consequences they can have on a squad.

For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them....The army doesn't exist that can annihilate men in their own land-not if they love it sufficiently.

Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

You have to think about the consequences of actions, and if they're negative, that shouldn't be your choice.

I'm not trying to be mean. You [ Nicholas Kristof] have written about climate change. You're really concerned and you've thought a lot about the suffering of people in other countries. It doesn't seem like you have thought that deeply about the suffering of your fellow Americans. You don't have the solutions say as you do for global warming. And my question is: Isn't it always easier for the elites to identify with abstractions or poor people in other countries and kind of ignore their own country men. I have noticed this. Have you noticed that?

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.