Quotes About Consequences

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

It's an incontrovertible fact that many--more than half of all children--will try [drugs]. For some of those, drugs will have no major negative impact on their lives. For others, however, the outcome will be catastrophic.

Giving in to terrorism will yield more terrorism, because it works.

But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

If we humans are good at anything, it's thinking we've got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

Alberta thought for a moment, and took a live mouse out of her pocket by its tail before dropping it into Wagner's mouth. The bird wolfed the unfortunate creature whole.

You MUST take your pills. If you fail to take your pills, every single person in your dormitory will be PUNISHED for all ETERNITY

will then dispose of the chocolate by eating it. Anyone who refuses to hand over their chocolate to me will not be EXPELLED. They will be held upside down by their ankles and dangled out of the window until they hand over their chocolate. After I have eaten their chocolate, then, and only then, will they be EXPELLED.

And still at number one… "It's not just yourself you've let down, but the whole school.

you got your just desserts

The Parent Survival Kit: Limits and Consequences

No one forced us to dope, but in the end, you were either in or out: you couldn't survive in the sport without doing it.

This was a man's man. One who could lead, control, rebel and oppose. He was the type of man that an African woman needed in situations like the ones they were in. He didn't care what the consequences were, if he felt it; he just did it. Just made it happen without further regards to the side effects.

If you hang with dogs, then of course you must get treated like dogs.

All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran — or Grayson — Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was .

I said, "And then, when those all-American Joes get out and some of them fucking turn into monsters? What happens then?" Amy said, "Then we will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered. You take the choice in front of you, and then you keep picking the non-murder choices as long as you can.

I had a familiar, nervous sensation, one that goes all the way back to elementary school. It's the simultaneous realization that I may have talked my way into another fistfight, and that I had not spent any time learning to fight since the last one.

And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what. I wondered if a ship had ever really sunk that way.

In the real world, bullets that miss their targets keep traveling until they hit something. They fly through windows, and into the bodies of bystanders. And even successfully killing a bad guy creates blowback, sets off a whole chain of consequences that are impossible to predict. Guns always represent a failure of negotiation.

CHAPTER 11 By the way . . . Looking back, if I had gone in and seen what was in the toolshed, I would have put a bullet in my own skull one minute later.

The truth was, I didn't feel sorry for Billy. He teased a dog and got his fingers bitten off. Fuck him. Fuck everybody.