Quotes About Consequences

Living proof of indiscretions makes bad company on the morning after.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

When given the choice, we'd all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we'll all be sad later.

The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.