#consequence

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #any #arrange #atoms #awful

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining. ↗

— Grace Jones

#accept #believe #complaining #consequences #decisions

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#body #communication #conjunction #consequence #feelings

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#bad #consequences #like #provokes #sword

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#call #consequences #dollar #her #life

The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#inevitability #life #time #life

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. ↗

— William Whewell

#combined #consequence #constantly #constitution #exercise

I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again. ↗

— Karina Halle

#consequences #life #mistakes #regrets #change

And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#life

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life