Quotes About Consequences

a person who tries to get rich by being cheap only gets financially weaker, and then suddenly they too go on a binge.

You and your children's future will be determined by choices you make today, not tomorrow.

He knew the law because he was a law-abiding citizen and because it was expensive to not know the law. "If you know you're right, you're not afraid of fighting back.

Me regañó: "La razón por la que te castigo no es porque le hayas roto el diente a tu hermana, sino porque huiste.

Buying a luxury on credit often causes a person to eventually resent that luxury because the debt becomes a financial burden.

He knew the law because he was a law-abiding citizen and because it was expensive to not know the law.

If the ship was lost, the crew lost their lives, but the loss to the rich would be limited only to the money they invested for that particular voyage.

the idea of "take-from-the-rich" backfired on the very people who voted it in.

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people, said Paul gravely. Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.

Fear is the original sin, wrote John Foster. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something. It is a cold, slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

Yet he may have committed what might be considered far greater sins that yet would not inflict on any one a tithe of the humiliation which his teasing inflicted on a child's sensitive mind.

Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.

from Mr. Bell. Sorry, miss! Sorry isn't going to help matters any. You'd better go and look at the havoc that animal has made in my oats Ã¢â'¬Â¦ trampled them from center to circumference, miss. I am very sorry, repeated Anne firmly, but perhaps if you kept your fences in better repair Dolly might not have broken in. It is your part

admitted Walter. Then the girls came in and Nan put cayenne pepper in it—and that made it worse—Di made me hold a swallow of cold water in my mouth—and I couldn't stand it, so they called Susan. Susan said it served me right for sitting up in the cold garret yesterday writing poetry trash. But she started up the kitchen fire

Susan Baker,' she says to me, 'I hope you never light a fire with coal-oil. Or leave oily rags lying around, Susan. They have been known to cause spontaneous combustion in less than an hour. How would you like to stand and watch this house burn down, Susan, knowing it was your fault?' Well, Miss Dew dear, I had my laugh on her over that. It was that very night she set her curtains on fire and the yells of her are ringing in my ears yet.

I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment.

Silas Lee was sent to prison for manslaughter and died there.

You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.

Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.

Fired by an emotional faith in spontaneity, the common-sense attitude toward change was discarded in favor of a mystical readiness to accept the social consequences of economic improvement

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Bill Maher, on a program called Politically Incorrect said "lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building—say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Maher was fired and the program was terminated. Some portion of the media should have risen up in outrage, not necessarily to defend Maher and get him his job back, but in defense of speaking the truth. They did not.

We have the ultimate in freedom – we have absolutely no responsibilities! – and we're abusing it.