Quotes About Consequences

We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.

All powerful people make foolish decisions and end up in humiliating and embarrassing situations, as well as wielding their power.

Operational risk is the risk of loss resulting from bank operational failures, such as rogue traders, fraudulent sales practices, and cyber risks. Operational risk capital is money or assets that banks have to hold to shield the economy from the consequences of these kinds of failures.

I'm not pro-fracking. But sometimes there's got to be some pragmatism.

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

China's military growth and predatory economic practices pose a grave threat to the United States, and, if left unchecked by the Biden Administration, could have disastrous consequences.

In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

Around 19, I got a girl pregnant. I really didn't want to get married, but I was raised with the belief to marry that person and take care of our child.

When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.

Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.

My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a comic book that all but glorifies violence. So my take on 'Deathstroke' has been to not so much celebrate violence but to deal with the consequences of violence.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.

You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.