Quotes About Consequences

Stephanie, you jumped off a building." "Yes, but the branches broke my fall. Every one of them." "And how were the branches?" "A lot unlike pillows." "You could have been killed." "But I wasn't.

He looked at Ghastly. "Thoughts?" "I want to kill Sanguine," was the first thing Ghastly said. "And I want to do it slowly, in front of a lot of people. Using a hammer." Skulduggery nodded. "Very healthy.

Do you remember what Crux said?" Scorn asked China. "I bet you do. He said that you handed Skulduggery Pleasant's wife and child over to Nefarian Serpine. He said that you led them to their deaths... Blackmail is just an ugly, ungainly word, but these are ugly and ungainly times in which we live. You will do as I say, exactly as I say, or I will tell the Skeleton Detective your terrible, terrible secret. Do you agree to my terms?

A lot of things aren't wise, Melissa. Is crossing the road with your eyes closed wise? No, but I do it anyway.

But you said he was OK. He murdered someone and you said he was OK." Never scowled. "First of all, and I think this is important, that's not the order in which those things occurred. I said he was OK, and then he murdered someone. But, due to recent events, I've obviously changed my mind about him.

And look at me now. Seriously. Look at what all that action and adventure has done to me. I'm a frickin' basket case. - Valkyrie

Those are dangerous words you speak." "Well then," Wreath said, "it's a good thing you're not in charge, or I'd really be in trouble, wouldn't I?

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.