(851 quotes found)
“AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.”
Susan Sontag
“Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.”
Maxwell Maltz
“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Duty is ours; consequences are God's.”
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
“And with Epicurus, 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”
Michel de Montaigne
“Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron”
Joseph Stalin
“I am not a politician..I only suffer the consequences”
Peter Tosh
“Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.”
Isaac Goldberg
“Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house”
Fran Lebowitz
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
Bill Cosby
