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“And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.”

Knows Worry Consequence Sick Lunch

Author:Barack Obama

“I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come whether or not, for example, they originate in the physical universe as modern astrophysics has described it). But they manifest in the physical world and bring about definable consequences in that domain.”

Knows World Universe Modern Example Source Consequence Stress Aliens Manifest Domain Ufo Astrophysics

Author:Jacques Vallee

“Courage is......following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though others don't agree. Taking complete responsibility for your actions and your mistakes. Doing what you know is right, regardless of the consequence.”

Knows Inspirational Mind Action Mistake Responsibility Sacrifice Benefits Conscience Consequence Gains Agree Crowds Following Personal Gain Following The Crowd

Author:Eric Harvey

“When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure”

Knows Said Consequence Notes Editors Comment Genocide Turkeys Armenians Armenian Genocide

Author:Pope Francis

“I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.”

Ifs Knows Want Passion Speak Heard Willing Consequence Embrace Defeat Bitter Fierce Unwanted

Author:David Whyte

“We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.”

“Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.”

Ifs Knows Needs Children Problem Fall Ability Brain Situation Evolution Lovers Drug Consequence Negative Falling In Love Addiction Despite Finding Yourself Persist Negative Consequences

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“I think that when we talk about the regulators and the politicians, the economic consequences of bad decisions back in '08, you know, were devastating, and they had repercussions throughout the world.”

Thinking Knows World Decision Economic Politician Consequence Repercussions Bad Decision Regulators

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.”

Ifs Knows World Years Littles Important Philosophy Would Be Lasts Political Natural Amount Discipline Majors Consequence Philosopher Fifty Amazed Journal Natural World Redundancy

Author:Dale Jamieson

“The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.”

“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.”

“Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the things that we put into the air, into the water - of the way we treat life on Earth.”

Knows Way Problem Earth Water Air Consequence Treats

Author:Sylvia Earle

“In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.”

Knows Way Country Whole Term Decision Seeing Consequence My Family Agreement Holocaust Cleansing Ethnic Cleansing Munich Balkans Small Countries Unintended Consequences

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.”

People Knows Difficult Laughing Serious Consequence Comedian Anxious Making People Laugh

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.”

Thinking Knows Stills Would Be Imagine Huge Consequence Despite Administration Desperate Iran Imagine That Catastrophe Resorts Unlikely Nobody Knows

Author:Noam Chomsky

“We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?”

Knows Want May Dream Seems Film Keys Consequence Logic Atmosphere Tragic Ambiguity

Author:Albert Serra

“I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.”

Thinking Knows Feels Shows Might Political Religious Opinion Possibility Consequence Discussion Uncomfortable Giants Political Opinions

Author:Norm MacDonald

“If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Believe Two Seems I Believe Steps Consequence I Believe In Being True

Author:Peyton Manning

“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

“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”

Thinking Knows Important Stories Beautiful Film Choices Truth Is Cost Consequence Thirds Scary Cinema Theme Larry Andrew Motifs

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.”

Knows Years Kind Plans Economic Taxes Percent Consequence Including Debt Spending Boost National Debt Federal Spending

Author:Karl Rove

“People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.”

People Knows Way Want Ideas Able Life Is Consequence

Author:Charles Stanley

“Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.”

Knows Should Kids Stuff Break Consequence Exploration

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.”

Knows Choices Position Willing Consequence Responsible Intention You Choose Being Responsible

Author:Gary Zukav

“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”

Knows Should Kind May Children Helping Age School Humanity Religious Sun Childhood Sweet Flower Intellectual Consequence Active Dawn Spontaneity Splendor Montessori Suppressing Veneration

Author:Maria Montessori

“Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.”

Knows Writing Materials Consequence

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

Knows Men Believe Real Action Consequence Connected Believe In You Real Men Actions Have Consequences

Author:Sister Souljah

“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.”

Knows Use Hurt Sleep Responsibility Company Safe Consequence Protection Awake Pleasant Love Sleep

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do”

Thinking Knows Believe Littles Ends Motivational Action Acceptance Consequence Being Smart Smart Thinking Lazy Thinking

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive

“He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.”

Knows Men World Believe Said Order Blood This World Consequence

Book:The Border Trilogy

Source: The Border Trilogy

“What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!”

Knows Consequence Crosses Assuming

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does not always approve of our behavior. He is not pleased when we go against his will, and when we do, we always suffer the consequences and have to work with Him to correct our thoughts, words, actions, or attitudes. And while you should work to improve in the areas where you fall short, nothing you do will ever cause God to love you less…or more. His love is a constant you can depend on.”

“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

“Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.”

Knows Used Consequence Disappointment

Author:William Goldman

“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”

Knows World Feels Trying Two Home Artist Suffering Consequence Call Me Bourgeois Two Worlds

Book:Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories

Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories

“Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.”

Knows Firsts Said Helping Earth Fire Masters Consequence Rain Wet

Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On 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

“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”

People Knows Giving Feelings Seems Eye Action Young Asks Grace Consequence Endless Generous Companionship Everlasting Miraculous Straightforward

Author:Albert Camus

“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

“Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.”

Knows Needs Funny Prayer Lord Knowing Protect Consequence Decided Amen Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Hitchhiking

Author:Douglas Adams

“Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.”

Knows Wells Use Values Shapes Consequence Rooted

Author:Bell Hooks

“Lying to yourself is easy, too. I know. It's much harder to stay and deal with consequences.”

Knows Lying Easy Deals Consequence Harder Lying To Yourself

Book:Sea Glass

Source: Sea Glass

“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

“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

“Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.”

Knows Serious Consequence

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“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

“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.”

Knows Action Deals One Thing Consequence Things In Life Follow Through Sure Thing

Book:Rosie Dunne

Source: Rosie Dunne

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

Knows World Feels Stills Speak Know How Cutting Blood Consequence Ears Tongue Pounds Do You Know Breakdown Verge Ribbons

Author:Jodi Picoult