Quotes About Consequences

Years later, thinking about this conversation, I will remember, as somebody very sagely said during the patricide trials of the Menendez brothers: Anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame .

Sometimes I wish there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

He said he had it against Helmut Schauffler that he was the living, walking, detestable proof of a war won at considerable personal cost by one set of men, and wantonly thrown away by others

It is as well to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

When disciplined, however, the individual is given consequences that help shape him or her for future success.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Mrs. Chippy some distance from camp and shot them without a qualm

Jealousy is the cause of erosion of good deeds, as well as the attracter of chastisement.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

If matters get mixed up then scrutinize the cause and you will know what the effects will be.

Tongue is a beast, if it is let loose, it devours.

One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal.

Take warning! He has not exposed so many of your sinful activities that it appears as if He has forgiven you (it may be that He has given you time to repent).

Mess up my climate, I'll fuck with your lives. Your lives are a nothing to me. I'll yank daffodils out of the ground in December. I'll block up your front door in April with snow and blow down that tree so it cracks your roof open. I'll carpet your house with the river. But I'll be the reason your own sap's reviving. I'll mainline the light to your veins.

Say that the berries on a tree fermented / say that some birds ate them got drunk demented / couldn't fly straight flew straight into instead / wall of an office block and fell down dead / down on the pavement people undeterred / stepping over the mound of broken bird

to speak without thinkin will lead you to an early grave, or to a very small cinder-block cell!

Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.

And all of that destruction belongs to you. The destruction can't be healed, we are murderers.

He wanted to sleep but wound up thinking about the dead teenager, the story the skid marks told, the way most problems usually boiled down to not having enough reaction time to correct a mistake.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had stolen all the gifts he was meant to deliver: wind-chimes, scented candles, Belgian chocolates, cowbells from the Bernese Oberland. Most of the haul had been lavished on his elderly mother; the rest he had stashed in his bedroom, which the old lady, being too frail to climb the stairs, no longer cleaned.

You know the good thing about digging your own grave? You always make it just the right size.