Quotes About Consequences

What "value" is taught when school administrators thumb their noses at the highest court in the land and continue illegal practices?

This book has the best quote describing the feeling of getting drunk. "I was starting to get drunk now, and I was clinging with my fingertips to the last vestige of decorum. Soon, however, I knew there would come that moment when, without anyone's bidding, I would slip through a crack in the floorboards and find myself rowing across the River Styx with my demon entourage, and not until morning would I fully be able to assess the consequences". Perfect.

Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.

You can't base your actions on the theory that anyone you don't keep your eye on is apt to get killed.

Invade a man's privacy and then put the burden on him.

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.

He'll try again. With money to pay lawyers you can do a lot of dodging. That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.

The way you spend your time defines your life.

All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Words are very powerful, so when you complain about any person you actually harm your life. It is your life that will suffer. By the law of attraction whatever you think or say about another person, you bring to you.

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

You can't go around killing people who insult you or disagree with you or society would be a highly dangerous place.

Sometimes sadness teaches lessons that lead to more sadness, but sometimes it can lead to changed behavior. Sometimes happiness cannot figure out how to give itself to others. Sometimes joy can only be lived, a lucky chance that one takes, a risk that says damn the consequences.

That seemed dangerous. If your internal map of reality doesn't match external conditions, bad things happen.

Dorner leaned back in his chair, imagining what might have happened if he hadn't injected himself. The limbo of sleep, dark and secret— Drowning in the sea of voices. Not waking, not fighting. Letting them storm him without resisting.

Homosexual activity will not incur God's punishment: it is its own punishment, an

Mark nowhere explicitly interprets Jesus' death as an act of "love." The way of the cross is simply the way of obedience to the will of God, and discipleship requires following that way regardless of cost or consequences.

The law of unintended consequences rules, often with deadly silence.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.