Quotes About Consequences

They had the shattered look of people given what they'd wished for.

After announcing the scheme, Abbott sought with some charm the absolution of his startled party. "Sometimes," he said, "it is better to ask forgiveness rather than permission.

Would I have fared better if I had stood my ground and stared down my pursuers? Could so-called self-preservation sometimes backfire and become the very cause of pain?

One thing I do know, and I believe you know it too, is that what he is doing goes against the very grain of the universe. He's taking the path of Icarus, and no matter how you mix the wax, it melts when it gets too close to the sun.

But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer term, of responsibilities and obligations, debts to be paid, promises to fulfil. I

We are not causing you to "lose your job" by "giving" you an OVI. We didn't give it to you, it was earned.

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

Reckless talk costs lives.

We can't just erase the history we don't like, then there won't be any lessons to be learned.

The things you've done and the things you've said; the fists you've raised and the bruises you've kissed, everything has finally come together and will now stay together.

The whole notion that ADHD is a specific disease easily remedied by a pill is convenient but alarming. In several schools throughout the United States as many as 25 percent of students are routinely receiving powerful, mind-altering medications, the long-term consequences of which have never been studied!

After sitting through my lecture on white supremacy—its origins, reach, and consequences—one of my students said to me, "I couldn't have taken another minute of that." I said, "Good, then it was the right amount."

Do not tell someone you love them, and then vote for someone who will hurt them.

No nos equivoquemos: estos brotes de enfermedad que se suceden uno tras otro están relacionados entre sí. Y no solo nos ocurren; constituyen las consecuencias imprevistas de todo aquello que hacemos.

Un individuo humano puede elegir no consumir savia de palma, no comer carne de chimpancés, no montar las pocilgas a la sombra de los mangos, no limpiar la tráquea de los caballos con las manos desnudas, no tener sexo sin protección con prostitutas, no compartir aguja, no toser sin taparse la boca, no subirse con síntomas a un avión o no poner a las gallinas y a los patos en el mismo corral.

Dovremmo sapere che le recenti epidemie di nuove zoonosi, oltre alla riproposizione e alla diffusione di altre già viste, fanno parte di un quadro generale più vasto, creato dal genere umano. Dovremmo renderci conto che sono conseguenze di nostre azioni, non accidenti che ci capitano tra capo e collo. Dovremmo capire che alcune situazioni da noi generate sembrano praticamente inevitabili, ma altre sono ancora controllabili.

Zoonoses by definition involve events beyond the ordinary, and the scope of their consequences can be extraordinary too. Every spillover is like a sweepstakes ticket, bought by the pathogen, for the prize of a new and more grandiose existence. It's a long-shot chance to transcend the dead end. To go where it hasn't gone and be what it hasn't been. Sometimes the bettor wins big.

Ecological circumstance provides opportunity for spillover. Evolution seizes opportunity, explores possibilities, and helps convert spillovers to pandemics.

the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what makes us what we are.

Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.

You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea.

Dictators and tyrants are the ones who lead their people over a cliff.