Quotes About Consequences

But she didn't. Didn't because she couldn't. None of those people had in any way harmed her or her family. And had she tried to hurt one of them, God would have somehow intervened.

What's more, our government's responses were late, slow, indecisive and almost impossible to understand. Perhaps the worst outcome so far is the rise of "moral hazard." When risky behavior is insured against the consequences of its failure, that is considered moral hazard. If performed on a broad enough scale, it can be catastrophic for a nation.

Trzeba si? pilnowa?, bo inaczej ani si? cz?owiek obejrzy, a ju? zaczyna ka?dego ?a?owa? i w ko?cu nie ma komu w mord? da?

We are all guilty... [But the opportunity to make money] can draw a film across the eyes, so thick, that total blindness could do no more... A trade founded in iniquity must be abolished... let the consequences be what they will.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back." #quotesilikebydkc

The most dangerous thing you can do with marijuana. Is get caught with it.

As the poet W. H. Auden put it, "Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself?

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Small actions can cause great harm, especially when those actions become habits. So just a little tiny change in the right place at the right time, everything will be much better.

It's like those Christians that say that if there wasn't a God they'd be out there robbing, raping, and murdering folks. If that's true, and the only reason they aren't out committing crimes is because they're afraid to go to hell, then they aren't really good people.

Truly, men often fail to understand their own weaknesses," I said neutrally, "and their lack of self-knowledge can bring terrible disasters down on their own heads.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

I betrayed you," I said, so quietly that I hardly knew it was my own voice. It felt like a lie even though I told the truth. He stood perfectly still. A siren sounded, long and low. "You can't get home. They've stopped the boat," he said. Strangely, I did not think about Mother, or what I would tell her tomorrow. It seemed that tomorrow would never come,(…)

Quant à ce que nous appelons fatalité, ce n'est que notre entêtement à ne pas assumer les conséquences de nos petites et grandes faiblesses.

A man who cheats, cheats only himself.

Ognuno inchiodato al legno della sua esistenza a scontare la colpa che non commise e quella che commise.