Quotes About Consequences

Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don't give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

April 23, 1813: "Political problems do not primarily concern truth or falsehood. They relate to good or evil. What in the result is likely to prove evil, is politically false; that which is productive or good, politically is true.

Spending is worse than pain, she thought; it lasts longer.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.

Jesus did not use hell to try and compel heathens and pagans to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.

Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.

Failure, we see again and again, isn't final, judgment has a point, and consequences are for correction.

the damage that had been done was probably deeper than anyone imagined

is a bullshit business that produces a product that causes as much or more cirrhosis, car wrecks, fetal alcohol

Loose lips sink ships, Mr. Kiss and Tell.

Thank you' ranks just below 'You ruined my life' and just above 'When I get my hands on you.

That campaign raises, in fact, one of the greatest issues invoked by the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson; the relationship between means and ends. Many of the ends of Lyndon Johnson's life, civil rights, in particular, perhaps, but others too, were noble. Heroic advances in the cause of social justice....Those noble ends would not have been possible without the means, far from noble, that brought Johnson to power...To what extent are ends inseparable from means?

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

I wouldn't want Larry to die through my oversight. Larry is entitled to work out his own damn foolishness without having it cut short through my carelessness. Duke, I believe in everyone's working out his own damnation his own way . . . but nevertheless that is no excuse for an adult to give a dynamite cap to a baby as a toy.

See here, son, if a deputy sheriff beats a prisoner to death, it's sweepstakes odds that the county commissioners didn't order it, didn't know it, and wouldn't have permitted it had they known. At worst they shut their eyes to it—afterwards—rather than upset their own applecarts. But assassination has never been an accepted policy in this country.

A man who bets on greed an dishonesty won't be wrong too often.