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One of the laws of the universe is unintended consequences.
JOHN MOORES It's the law of unintended consequences.
BILL REINSCH Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!
ANDREW LEVKOFF It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of hu...
IAN TATTERSALL Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,
I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the Wes...
GARETH GATES Run... That's what's going to save you from the deadly virus
"PORNOGRAPHY
DEYTH BANGER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
KATE WINSLET Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified...
IAN LUSTICK Half the costs of illness are wasted on conditions that could be prevented. from the book"Total Wel...
DR. JOSEPH PIZZORNO We are working with Rep. Pence on keeping the focus on preventing child pornography and eliminating ...
GAYLE OSTERBERG A law like this may have unintended consequences.
MAYCO VILLAFANA If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military in...
FAREED ZAKARIA We believe that are some unintended consequences of the ruling and we think there are better ways to...
CHARLIE SCHROCK Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
CECELIA AHERN Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the...
FERNANDO PESSOA Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY One of the unintended consequences of Roe vs. Wade is it stakes everything to viability. Well, viabi...
JEFFREY KAHN Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad an...
JOHN B. LARSON The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blo...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
STONE GOSSARD The way to final freedom is within thy self.
THE BOOK OF THE GOLDEN PRECEPTS I think the music has evolved from what it was on the first record. The first one was sort of about ...
ADAM GONTIER We must be careful to avoid any unintended consequences that may be hidden in the administration's p...
JOHN DINGELL Thy designs are a bottomless pit. How can I descend into this pit to examine it? Thou lookest thousa...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS Brownback is ambitious, and he has a goal, and that should be respected. Sometimes you have unintend...
JOE AISTRUP Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different...
ANNE DUDLEY The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. ...
JEANNE DUPRAU We share this goal of making sure that individuals receive value for their premiums, on the other ha...
KAREN IGNAGNI One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives ...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.
BIG BOI Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear...
DOUGLAS LEONE One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as ...
ALEXANDRA PETRI from The Ninja and The Diplomat (coming in September 2015)--As an unintended but ineluctable consequ...
HOCK G. TJOA We have to be aware of unintended consequences of legislation in terms of whether it affects people'...
BRIAN PADDICK Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to ...
JUSTIN CRONIN The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,
BISHOP JOSEPH BUTLER Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one.
K.A. TUCKER I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed...
NANCI GRIFFITH All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
FERNANDO PESSOA Life is a journey through a foreign land.
O.R. MELLING The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO It's complicated. There are too many unanswered questions and it's moving too quickly. We're worried...
JENNIFER ALEXANDER One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a...
DAVID LIPSKY One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
MIKE FIGGIS Today's numbers make it possible to evaluate the consequences of the boycott from Muslim nations on ...
JAKOB JAKOBSEN One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Groups feeding the homeless at the Downtown Plaza has had unintended consequences. There are so many...
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences...
DAN WEBSTER My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.
CAROLINE B. COONEY I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences...
O. A. BATTISTA The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of th...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is...
GLEN DUNCAN One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that we...
GARY JOHNSON What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes...
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? O...
DAVID FRUM I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn'...
PHILIPP MEYER A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.
Not only do you learn in the journey ...
LIZ HAY Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.
WILLIAM GIBSON Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for y...
IAN PHILPOT I'm the type of girl who smiles a lot. I'm the type of girl who is kind to everyone. I'm the type of...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuat...
LEE RAYMOND It's unfortunate for the Republicans to say if we don't see it their way, we're soft on crime or sup...
MARK LENO He knows me better than anyone ever has. Than anyone ever will again. I would have stopped it if I c...
AMY ENGEL Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; d...
ÉLIPHAS LéVI One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather ...
BRIAN ENO We've always done a lot of things, but it's been broad overall. This is the first time it's one to o...
GARY SCOTT [ X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner] showed me the first comic book and there was this bald guy in...
PATRICK STEWART I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for ...
TIM WALBERG Yet then from all my grief, O Lord,
Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
...
JOSEPH ADDISON You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no gua...
KENNETH EADE It's an entirely predictable example of the law of unintended consequences. The Republican party mad...
JOSHUA HOYT When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)
MARKUS ZUSAK Bod was obedient but curious.
NEIL GAIMAN Here is a small fact: You are going to die"
"does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I...
MARKUS ZUSAK There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ...
MARKUS ZUSAK An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
MARKUS ZUSAK Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
MARKUS ZUSAK The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was no...
MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say
MAX VANDENBURG "THE BOOK THIEF" Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't wan...
MARKUS ZUSAK Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.
MARKUS ZUSAK Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
MARKUS ZUSAK I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady n...
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achieve immortality through not dyin...
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Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But th...
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JOSEPH ROUX When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts
nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to
learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
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JOSEPH MITCHELL I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
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JOSEPH ADDISON I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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Through all her works) he ...
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Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
Bright...
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Old age is slow in both.
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ADRIAN JOSEPH ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
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always represented as blind.
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Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has s...
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Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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JOSEPH BRODSKY Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- descr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN