Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
Do right. Risk the consequences.
This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie. " Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.
We do have the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that's an enforcement consequence, action for action, follow on. We have a plan, we will watch them, we will be vigilant.
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal. The blame for what's happening right now is squarely at Maliki's feet. This is not a responsibility of the United States.
Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.
That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known. . . The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. . . . And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.