I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
Elections have consequences.
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.
I would say whisky or pills. Not both because that can have disastrous consequences.
The choices we make can have lasting consequences.
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.
If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.
Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.