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“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.”

Book Stories Happens Next Novel Mines Ordinary Consequence Detectives

Author:Steig Larsson

“You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.”

Happens Realizing Deals Consequence Weight Sleeves Points In Life

Author:Ernie Isley

“It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.”

World Art Happens Would Be Art Is Discovery Consequence Tasks Aim Objectives Description Accurate

Author:Peter London

“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.”

Needs Persons Done Body Happens Would Be Lasts Remember Levels Consequence Arguing Ethical Nevertheless Representation Imperatives Being Done Mediation Inscriptions

Author:Philip Auslander

“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.”

Knows Heart Persons Doe Facts Happens Earth Order Heaven Imagination Christianity Dying Particular Becoming Consequence Miracle Historical Myth Cease Legends Nobody Knows Osiris

Author:C. S. Lewis

“There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.”

Thinking Wells Important Happens Action Next Consequence Asking Inaction

Author:Chuck Hagel

“We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.”

People Important Country Seems Happens Sex Bed Consequence Binge

Book:Talking woman

Source: Talking woman

“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.”

Thinking Play Bigs Happens Force Subjects Huge Terrible Consequence Folly Customs Momentum Accounting

Author:Charlie Munger

“Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.”

Long Happens Earth Turns Term Happened Effects Consequence Regard Species Environmental Long Term Mars Extinction Venus Greenhouses Runaway Knobs

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.”

Feels Happens Action Life Is Results Silence Hell Consequence Inevitable Damn Nothingness Screws Implications Loving Someone How You Feel Whatever Happens Screwed Up

Author:Janis Joplin

“Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.”

Thinking Happens Process Elements Consequence Coincidence

Author:Ruben Papian

“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.”

“Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.”

Long Sometimes Happens Action Long Time Consequence Series Our Actions Vacuums Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.”

Years Has Beens Happens Lasts Watches Security Consequence Structure Profound Britain Afghanistan National Security Defence Alliances Nato Bedrock

Author:Bob Ainsworth

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

Happens Certain Consequence Things Happen

Author:Sarah Paulson

“Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and that's very satisfying. It forces you to pay great attention and you lose yourself in the task at hand. Without the risk, that wouldn't happen, so the risk is an essential part of climbing, and that's hard for some people to grasp. You can't justify the risk when things go wrong and people die. The greater the risk, the greater the reward in most aspects of life, and in climbing that's certainly true, too. It's very physical, you use your mind and your body.”

“To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate to say anything about it. And when one has attained to ecstasy, when one has known the ultimate peak of joy, compassion comes as a consequence. When you have that joy, you like to share it; you cannot avoid sharing, sharing is inevitable.”

Mean Happens Joy Compassion Known Share Possibility Consequence Ultimate Inevitable Awake Ecstasy Say Anything Adequate Harmonious

Author:Rajneesh

“The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.”

Happens Universe Secret Happened Minutes Events Masters Consequence Connections Clinton Amnesia

Author:Lance Morrow

“In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.”

Ifs War Whole Happens Young Mistake Exercise Consequence Regard Faults Prepared Soldier Unusual Fatigue Embarrassment

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.”

Stills Happens Today Courses Steps Share Huge Revolution Consequence Revolutionary Scandal Printed French Revolution

Author:Marina Warner

“I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.”

Children Real Ends Enough Happens Kids Remember Political Mother Actors Natural Interesting Disease Losing Empathy Consequence Aspect Iraq Active Rest Of Your Life Natural Consequences

Author:Susan Sarandon

“People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families.”

People Believe May Self Happens Dark Self Esteem Consequence Esteem Dark Things Loving Relationships

Author:Andrew Solomon

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

Happens Fighting Consequence Prepared Opponents Unprepared

Author:Chris Eubank, Jr.

“I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.I can't let anything like that happen to me, I've got too many goals, too much ambition in the sport. We're looking to fight for a world title this year.”

World Years I Can Happens Fighting Sports Goal Too Much Ambition Consequence Prepared Titles Opponents Unprepared

Author:Chris Eubank, Jr.

“We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.”

Children Happens Causes Natural Teach Effects Consequence Mirrors Cause And Effect Natural Consequences

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.”

Happens Consequence

Author:Warren Buffett

“You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.”

People Humans Persons Happens Cities Dying Information Like You Disease Capable Consequence Overcoming Majority Climate Addiction Climate Change Human History Predicting Underwater Food Supply

Author:Moby

“If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.”

“Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes out of mainstream Christianity, based on beliefs that have had outrageous human consequences in the past, and that I think are totally indefensible. In this case, they happen to lead to some of the most courageous, heroic, and honourable human action that's taking place anywhere in the world. Well, that's how life is, I guess. It doesn't come in neat little packages.”

“When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.”

Knows World Littles Happens Stage Trust Consequence Work Out Guarantees Going To Work Everything Happens For A Reason Improvising Trust No One Guarantees In Life

Author:Colin Mochrie

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

Ifs Happens Action Next Women Knowledge Morning Laughing Drink Bed Consequence Stones Dare Doomed Ruined Foresight

Author:Margaret Atwood

“...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.”

Believe May Happens Past Life Is Memories Chance Space Fiction Events Consequence Passing Passings Being True Fragile Single Life Past Present Past Present And Future Gauges

Author:Isabel Allende

“What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.”

People Knows Heart Government Happens Lasts Lying Levels Media Broken Consequence Abuse Killing Stealing Administration Corporate Cheating Survivor Last Time Monstrous Ribs Domestic Abuse

Author:Inga Muscio

“For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?”

Knows Happens Certain Dies Responsibility Goes On Late Consequence Too Late Up To You

Author:Ray Bradbury

“There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.”

Knows Men Soul Happens Evil Black Break Path Shadow Consequence Strikes Zone Passages Now And Then Reckoning

Book:THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES äóñ The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Colour out of Space, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

Source: THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES äóñ The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Colour out of Space, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

“There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.”

Believe Happens Action Can Do Accepting Honor Consequence Things To Do Right Thing

Book:Superior Saturday

Source: Superior Saturday

“God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.”

People Knows World Want Happens Faces Dangerous Willing Eternal Consequence Saved Eternal Life Whatever Happens Unafraid

Book:Max On Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

Source: Max On Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

“Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?”

“It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.”

People Matter Hard Wisdom Might Happens Death Birth Consequence Whatever Happens Having Patience Irrevocable Irreversible

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”

Happens Choices Results Mistake Greater Consequence Define You One Mistake

Author:Jojo Moyes