But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have... ROXANE GAY If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, w... JORDAN B. PETERSON What you have within you in your life is what you are after death. If you have explored it to some e... BELSEBUUB If you take responsibility and blame yourself, you have the power to change things. But if you put r... DEJA KING Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guy... ICE AGE When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like... CAROL CHANNING Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one r... HOLLY LISLE Unless you create your own future, you are a slave to someone elses ALAN MARSDEN You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apo... ROXANE GAY You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences o... WILLIAM GLASSER You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences o... CONRAD HILTON if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses succes... JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON life is not about actions..we take actions whether wrong or right its all about consequences..some a... ROHISH KAURA If you sleep with one eye open are your dreams only half as good as everyone elses? NEIL LECKMAN You can’t keep messing up someone elses feelings just because you are unsure of your own. OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - an... DAVID KNOPFLER I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind, LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD If you are convinced that the life style you are leading is right, if you are not coming in the way ... LATIKA TEOTIA You can’t fundamentally change a person, and some actions are certainties, doomed to be repeated. ... RYAN DAFF Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory. They'll attempt... NIKKI ROWE I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE With so many people in the world i am confident in saying, if you connect with someone on a soul lev... NIKKI ROWE How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo... TANICA S HALL If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, ... SHANNON L. ALDER ‘EGO’ Understand it, recognize it in you through your actions and then release its hold you. Onl... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offere... SOFIA VASSILIEVA People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But... ED BEGLEY, JR. There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something... LEMONY SNICKET If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand oth... SHANNON L. ALDER You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standa... KRIS CARR This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove... BRYAN SINGER It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you an... SHANNON L. ALDER It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ... ZADIE SMITH I'm the kind of girl you hear storrys Abort. If could I would save everyone. People say I have a hea... LITTLE DEVIL If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America tod... JEAN BAUDRILLARD In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to th... C.S. LEWIS Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, thei... OSCAR WILDE People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around... GARY F EVANS... Some people are like rocks, they ground you but sometimes put you in a hard place. Others are like t... NI D BREEN If you don't have a code of ethics or moral principles that you live by no matter what the consequen... MAURICE W. LINDSAY You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can p... BRYAN SINGER I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating... J. CORNELL MICHEL If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would... PAULO COELHO If you believe in your heart you are this away, because of your any ways, and other folk that's the ... SUSIE L HILL If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, th... DONNA LYNN HOPE Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation ... ROBIN HOBB If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. I... PATRICK SWAYZE If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world. CASEY WILSON Brendan, it's time for you to put your money where your mouth is. If you are sincere in your stateme... DANIEL LOEB It is better to remove the beam from your eye, before you remove the splinter from someone elses. DUTCH PROVERB I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy ... RUSSELL BRAND You are the one who creates your future, if not someone else will decide your fate and the road whic... N. S. COLE Have you seen the oddest couple in the world, to your eyes, walking down the street? That means ther... BJ THE CHICAGO KID If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position ... HOLLY LISLE It isn't God who's evil-it's us.......Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world... SYLVAIN REYNARD In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception o... DEBASISH MRIDHA If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and ene... SHARON SWAN If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbre... MICHAEL SCHENKER It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're th... JERRY HALL I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have gro... EDDIE REDMAYNE You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, ... MIRANDA JULY If you make a comment like that, those words have consequences. People take note of someone saying s... JAMES OBERSTAR And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do... WILL ROGERS I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, the... DOROTHY STRATTEN Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one e... JAMES A. MURPHY Even going to the Olympics, not a lot of people even know who you are. But when you win a medal and ... SHANNON REMPEL Boys are like purses. You're always gonna have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and ... LAUREN CONRAD You will not lose anything if you sign the petition, but someone will, if you don't..
(in response t... JAI SINGH If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an imp... RACHEL DRATCH people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you... LORRIE MOORE As commissioner I have the skills to negotiate and the skills to work with and through people and to... BILL DODSON You are the sum total of the people you meet and interact with in the world. Whether it’s your fam... TANNER COLBY When you love someone, your world becomes wonderful. Image if you loved everyone how wonderful your ... JIM GENOVESE Reconnect with who you truly are and what you really want rather than letting the outside world dete... SUSAN C. YOUNG If you are happy with the way things are in the schools, and your children are happy and fulfilled, ... JOHN HOLT I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They ... GORDON B. HINCKLEY What really annoys me very often is when People start comparing two individuals. This clearly indica... RAMANA PEMMARAJU If you look at it from the auditing side, you literally walk up to the fox and say, 'Are there any m... AL ROSEN We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a sp... GAYLORD NELSON Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wrac... ANNE LAMOTT There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you ... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY* DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry DON'T SET... TRENT REZNOR You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ... JAMES BALDWIN I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally yo... RADHA MITCHELL If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of ... ADNAN PACHACHI Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tir... CRISS JAMI In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to t... C.S. LEWIS In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to t... GILLIAN ANDERSON If you yourself fail to recognize the truth, chances are no one else can make you see it either. You... JOY MANISCALCO If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—thr... VICTORIA MORAN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and... MARTHA STOUT If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to ... QURAN To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they h... PETER SINGER You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu... JOHN PIPER
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RAY BRADBURY What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to ... RAY BRADBURY Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to i... RAY BRADBURY You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your be... RAY BRADBURY That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. RAY BRADBURY It's the next natural step ... to get a first-hand account and bring the story full circle. They are... ADRIAN BRADBURY The story really struck me. I really believe there isn't a worse place in the world to be a child. ADRIAN BRADBURY The response has blown us away for sure. The only way you can affect change is by doing it ... wheth... ADRIAN BRADBURY There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit ma... RAY BRADBURY Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbu... RAY BRADBURY Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them wh... RAY BRADBURY You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted i... RAY BRADBURY We're seeing a big increase in recent years in oyster sets on our beaches. A couple years ago we had... ALEX BRADBURY Every year we go out and see people using screwdrivers and filet knives and hammers, and you're alwa... ALEX BRADBURY There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. RAY BRADBURY You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like... RAY BRADBURY Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's... RAY BRADBURY You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa... RAY BRADBURY Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. RAY BRADBURY Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t... RAY BRADBURY Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The ... RAY BRADBURY Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ... RAY BRADBURY Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. RAY BRADBURY Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away." "But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. RAY BRADBURY I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down... RAY BRADBURY The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha... RAY BRADBURY I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ... RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the... RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ... RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà... RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr... RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ... RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done. RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ... RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ... RAY BRADBURY