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“If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice.”

Ifs Giving Choices Opinion Failing Pride Ego Worship Expectations Consequence Lust Surrender Idols Resentment Purpose Driven Life Worship God

Book:The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”

Ifs Writing Littles Long Made Matter Mistake Effects Produce Reader Consequence Details Dramatic What Matters Accuracy Bad Mistake

Book:The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic

Source: The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic

“If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.”

Ifs Want Writing Ideas Stories Belief Acting Consequence

Author:Charles Baxter

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

Ifs Principles Theory Consequence Claims Unexpected

Book:Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky

Source: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky

“The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.”

“There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”

Ifs Knows Action Results Knowing Consequence Endless Useless Strings Smallest I Hate You Alaska Looking For Alaska Book Knowing Better

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”

People Ifs Thinking Helping Past Loses Consequence Empty Weight Cake Throwing Plates Lose Weight Throwing Away

Author:Timothy B. Tyson

“Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Self Feelings Action Desire Results Consequence Negative Determine Satisfaction Self-satisfaction Negative Consequences

Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.”

“He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.”

Ifs Men Care Action My Own Duty Protect Consequence Responsible Prepared Burden Take Care Being Responsible Brian

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Real Matter Age Wanted Responsibility Fire Mystery Goes On Draws Consequence Scientist No Matter What Lifetime Lovely Let It Go Molecules Friction Real Beauty

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”

Ifs World Believe Country Matter Whole Jobs Moving Nations Principles Tree Politician Consequence Rivers Presses Plant Whole World Odds Requirements

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”

Ifs Should Understanding Consequence Intention Deeds Judged Our Words

Book:Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we’re aware of the consequences which will follow if we don’t.”

Ifs Knows Want Children Self Decision Discipline Adults Consequence Do You Know Self Discipline Chores

Author:Ilona Andrews

“He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.”

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

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

Ifs Want Ready Consequence Mess Mess With Me

Author:Francine Pascal

“If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.”

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.”

Ifs Choices Consequence Blame

Book:Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.”

Ifs Should Kind Consequence Forgiving Bounds Massive Pregnant Never Forgive Ejaculation

Book:The Liar

Source: The Liar

“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?”

“...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Persons Life Is Asks Decision Moral Conditions Duty Consequence Philosophical Asking Renounce Life Is A Gift Thinking Person

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.”

People Ifs Thinking Courses Asks Consequence Twenties Calm Drunk Twenty One Fourteen Calm Down

Author:Ben Aaronovitch

“Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.”

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.”

Ifs Self Whole Civilization Ego Consequence Ultimate Western Sense Of Self Transcendent Western Civilization Ennui

Author:Terence McKenna

“It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own”

People Ifs World Way Looks Matter Remember Fighting Evil Consequence Committed Karma Amish

Author:Amish Tripathi

“His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.”

Ifs Looks Book Would Be Eye Enjoy Interesting Attention Events Conversation Consequence Tables Lays Raised Caught His Eyes Companion Aloof Enquiry Interesting Conversation

Author:Georgette Heyer

“You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.”

“The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.”

People Ifs World Sometimes Found Strong Emotion Behavior Conscience Consequence Tragedy Boundaries Cruelty Sensitive Separating Lapses

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.”

Ifs Inspirational Has Beens Difficult Sides Friendship Business Risk Creating Consequence Connections Rewards Flip Firing Many Friends

Author:Mark Cuban

“Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.”

“Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.”

Source: Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

“It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.”

Ifs Want Giving Walks Acting Accepting Strength Willing Consequence What You Want Doing What You Want

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?”

Ifs Thinking Action Desire Quality Principles Objects Illusion Consequence Independent Mere Excited Free Will Inward Persuasion Our Actions Volition

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.”

Ifs Long Soul Lost Given Ability Greater Eternal Consequence Determine Mortals Realms Free Will Long Ago Here And Now Given Up Embodiment Greater Good

Author:Janet Morris

“Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning.”

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.”

“We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is our new demographic in America as a result of the election. I think they understand if they want to be a national party, they're going to have to deal with this issue. For Latinos and other immigrants, this is the civil rights issue of our time.”

“The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.”

Ifs Art War Force Battle Consequence Weak Size Defense Strikes Gaps Relative Isolated Troops Strict Art Of War Adversaries Supplies Scarce Guarded

Author:Sun Tzu

“Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.”

“We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Happiness Our Lives Acceptance Words Of Wisdom Consequence Avoiding

Book:The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World

Source: The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World

“It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.”

People Ifs Country Used Subjects Food Amount Drink Consequence Increase Notes Coffee Beer Quantity Disgusting

Author:Frederick The Great

“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.”

Ifs Pain Pleasure Greater Consequence Avoided

Book:Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of

Source: Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of

“Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.”

People Ifs Doe Soul Awareness Consequence Treats Treated Your Soul Reincarnation New Life Wrong Things

Author:Gary Zukav

“The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for life... There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that you mwill experience and if you choose, learn from.”

Ifs Mean Soul Choices Grows Situation Consequence Harmony Cooperation You Choose Reverence Optimal Reverence For Life

Author:Gary Zukav

“The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.”

Ifs Wells Doe Real Science Results Accepting Cases Acceptance Ought Evidence Consequence Determine Appearance Observation Certainty Combination Hypothesis Correctness

Author:William Whewell

“The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in the game are. But understanding the rules is just a trivial preliminary on the long route from being a novice to being a grand master. So even if we understand all the laws of physics, then exploring their consequences in the everyday world where complex structures can exist is a far more daunting task, and that's an inexhaustible one I'm sure.”

“The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.”

Ifs Way Life Believe Facts Body Reality Moving Science Universe Consequence Function Mirrors Entity Solar System Moving In Asymmetry

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.”

Ifs Want Persons Leadership Leader Opinion Share Consequence Confusion Each Day

Author:Wayne Dyer

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