Consequenses Quotes & Sayings

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings. — Jean Rhys

Forgive your enemies, but first get even. — Lester Cole

In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy. — Elizabeth Gaskell

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes. — Hillary Clinton

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. — Edith Wharton

War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy. — Walter Millis

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. — Timothy B. Tyson

Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course. — Frank E. Peretti

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red. — Alexander Calder

You can't go home again - isn't necessarily that places change but people do. — Lauren Oliver

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race. — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

It doesn't matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences. — Sunday Adelaja

The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind. — J. Kahele