Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marlee Matlin

For people who are afraid to talk about cancer, for people who are afraid to communicate with their loved ones about it, and for the people who want to pretend cancer doesn't exist, either delaying diagnosis or not getting regular checkups, the consequences can be fatal. Doing nothing about cancer will kill you.

Warren Spector

We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

Beeban Kidron

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

Sidney Hook

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

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

Dennis C. Blair

The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.

Louie Gohmert

There are consequences if you stand up for what you believe. Heck, you might - you might lose your sponsors if you're a talk show host; or if you're running for office, you know, people not give to you or people might not vote for you.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

Philip Dick

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.

John O. Brennan

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

Allan Houston

There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

Harry Browne

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

The president should name the best-qualified and proven constitutionalist to replace O'Connor as soon as Judge Roberts is confirmed, regardless of sex, race or ethnicity. The American people will decide the consequences of partisan politicians trying to intimidate the president into surrendering his constitutional duty.

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

Chester W. Nimitz

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?

This reinforces the idea that social support helps to lessen the negative consequences of stress.

When you intentionally cross the red light, then you will consciously deal with the consequences.

Martin Jacques

When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal.

We knew there would be some consequences to his actions, whether he deserved them or not.

We knew there was already a significant disease burden. We didn't expect and didn't find that it was possible to eradicate the H5N1 infection and we are living with the consequences of that.

We knew there was already a significant disease burden, ... We didn't expect and didn't find that it was possible to eradicate the H5N1 infection and we are living with the consequences of that.

Too many seniors are ill-informed about the consequences of not signing up.

There are real differences between the approaches, and the differences have real consequences,

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

Experience in many countries tells us that by accumulating foreign exchange reserves, eventually the monetary policy consequences could be big.

Experience is a wonderful thing - it lets us recognize our mistakes when we make them again.

but on an even greater scale and with even more dramatic consequences.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

Sathya Baba

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

Martin Rees

We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.

We are trying to create more consequences for this very dangerous trend. We hope this serves as a deterrent.

We must try to ensure that we will be ready to respond instantly with all the weapons at our disposal should the early signs of an influenza pandemic appear. If we fail, the consequences for societies, economies and global public health could be immeasurable.

James Harrison

Water looks so innocent much of the time, but with a flood it's not over when it's over. Its consequences go on for months. When people see their homes wrecked, and then the mildew and decay set in and they realize that life as they've known it is turned upside down, this can simply be overwhelming.