Quotes About Consequences

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.

The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

Character assassination of a politician is a victimless crime

Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it

There as yet to be a revolution where those who served it have not eventually been eaten

With Great Power Comes Great Psychopathy

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

Mrs. de Morgan- How can you stand to be near him now that you know he has taken a life? Veronica- Because, Mrs. de Morgan, I have taken two.

People have died for less. I know; I was there.

He has a country house in Surrey, a daughter to educate and launch into Society, a wife to keep. He has kept pace for twenty years with an American millionaire, underwriting his own expeditions. What if he has gone to the well once too often?

The young are often unjust. But in time I hope she will come to see that I am not the villainess she believed. I did everything in my power to save my husband from ruin. Instead I caused it.

Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

The very fact that she had been in the grotto and viewed the collection would have catastrophic repercussions for herself and the throne. Married women did not conduct themselves in such a fashion, and married princesses with Puritanical mothers were held to a higher standard still.

No justice that imperiled the innocent could ever be true, and Beatrice's recklessness spoke volumes as to her rage.

The Spartan boy and the fox?" "Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

The problem is, she's done things too often because she didn't what to disappoint people.

She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.

Anger has grand plans that sometimes look foolish later.

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.

Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence