Quotes About Consequences

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).

Good ends will not justify evil actions. What

Miracles are disruptive. When the dust settles there is always damage done – not all the hungry are fed, and not all the sick are healed.

The era of procrastination is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences,

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Lauretta! ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names: if you had called her Deborrah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.

It doesn't matter what kinds of limits or consequences parents establish. All that matters is that parents back their words up with action and hold fast.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

In all such instances of which I am aware, the Presidents do not think hard enough, carefully enough beforehand, about foreseeable, even likely consequences to their own effectiveness in office, looking down the line and around corners (xviii).

In the name of love, we give our kids ? indulgence rather than consequences; ? instant rather than delayed gratification; ? laxness rather than discipline; ? dependence rather than independence; ? and entitlement rather than responsibility.

If you are ever tempted to experiment with the alluring offerings of Lucifer first calmly analyze the inevitable consequences of such choices and your life will not be shattered. You cannot ever sample those things that are forbidden of God as destructive of happiness and corrosive to spiritual guidance without tragic results.

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent—now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

If learning is crucial, then as the stakes go up, decision-making quality is likely to go down.

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Sometimes dessert really is delicious, and we do best to go for it. Sometimes it is best to fall in love. But it is clear that when we are in a hot state, we can often get into a lot of trouble.

Self-control issues are most likely to arise when choices and their consequences are separated in time.

Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (1966).

People are not punished for their deeds, but by them~

Tell ya the man's got a private line t'Moscow," he said. "A few men like that in office and we're in for it, take my word.

When I fume in the tollbooth line, I am not a good person to whom a bad thing is happening. I am a liar who is getting what he deserves.

There was a time, and we can easily see it in the five or six centuries that run roughly from the time of Socrates to the time of Epictetus, when the idea of education was very simple, and the supposed consequences of education, tremendous. With us, it is the other way around.

By looting natural capital and hiding the costs. But the bill is coming, and we won't be able to pay.