Top 1200 Suffering The Consequences Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.

It's sad when 'Grand Theft Auto' has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.

I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

People realized that I'm willing to stand up for things that I believe in, despite the political consequences and overwhelming pressure.

When it comes to judicial nominations, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are fond of reminding Republicans that elections have consequences.

You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.

The United States cannot have the image of warmongers, with all the potential consequences it could have for our respective countries.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.

Consequences of acting in Donald Trump's usual egocentric, "I make the rules," way can be quite dangerous for all of us.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

I think there really needs to be some consequences for people with bullying, because there are children that are taking their lives over this.

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".

Has there ever been a crisper expression of the consequences of 'intersectionality' than a ban on Jewish lesbians from a Dyke March?

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

'Stand your ground' laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

it's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

It is not enough to simply dismiss policy, because it's too complicated or we're scared about what the unintended consequences might be.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn`t believe in our election system and believes that there`s rampant voter fraud.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.

If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.