Quotes About Consequences

Many teens communicate with their friends electronically far more than they do face-to-face, with as-yet-unknown consequences for their budding social skills. We already know that depression and anxiety have risen at an unprecedented rate and that twice as many young teens commit suicide as just a few years ago. It seems abundantly clear that screen time needs to be cut.

we are all aware of the consequences of climate change.

So he's condemned to a half life, for the sins of his fathers?' 'When the sins of his fathers had such hideous consequences, what would you suggest?

When we forget, or wilfully choose to ignore, the intractability of human behaviour, the complexity of human institutions, and the probability of unanticipated consequences, we do so at great risk, and often immense human cost.

To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice.

une modeste bombe atomique fait cent mille morts, sans compter tous ceux qui mourront des maladies induites par la radioactivité, des années, voire des décennies plus tard.

She knew that hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.

Batty had been blown up, drowned, smashed on the rocks, or some combination of the three. And it was all Skye's fault.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

My heart is yours, Cesare. And we are both damned for it.

It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

The young man had lost his mentor, his home, and his brother, all because of the actions of a single night.

he wondered how a person as bright and deserving as Rob Peace could have made the choices, beginning on the night of that banquet, that had resulted in this. And he figured that the choices hadn't necessarily begun on that night. Most likely, they'd begun on the night he was born, and not all of them had been his to make.

Flowy]'d undertaken this mainly because he'd known that going to public school, with girls, would sentence him to fatherhood by age sixteen, and he wanted to evade that pattern, one from which he himself had been born.

I've realized is that every time you get something cool for your birthday or for Christmas, within a week it's being used against you. (We'll be taking this away until your English grade improves)

Something is easy not to do when it won't bankrupt you, destroy your career, ruin your relationships or wreck your health—today.

you've reached a place where many years of simple errors in judgment have compounded over time, and you're feeling it.

Every decision you make is a slight edge decision. What you're going to do, how you're going to act, what you're going to read, who you're going to chat with on the phone, what you're going to eat for lunch, who you're going to associate with. How you're going to treat your fellow workers. What you're going to get done today.

I think his discovery scared even him. Sometimes Frankenstein has to kill his own monster.

Naming our kid was a real trial. I seize up when I have to name a document on my computer. I didn't name my son after me. What if he turns into a maniac? How'd you like to be Jeffrey Dahmer, Senior?

it's crazy to think he wouldn't call the police. But I despise him. I don't care how irrational it is; if my mind worked normally, I wouldn't have killed eight people for the fun of it.