Quotes About Consequences

That, Jim Knee, is what comes from showing off," said Septimus, sounding uncannily like Marcia.

To worry about these consequences of extreme inequality has nothing to do with being envious of the rich and everything to with the fear that rapidly growing top incomes are a threat to the wellbeing of everyone else.

May God punish you for this first of your sins!" Hossein Beyg shouted, his words falling on the room like a curse. "May you fear for your life every day you are Shah. May your children be murdered without mercy, just as you have condemned me. Men of the court, take heed! You will be next if you don't root out this viper in your midst.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

She decided it was time to get out of the water. If she stayed any longer, she'd go wrinkled and prune-like. Even worse, she might fall asleep and wake up only when it was cold.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

Sci-fi is about 'what if this happened,' and 'what would you do.' You can play around with social dilemmas, or look at society or, in my case, relationships, in a very different way.

Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

I've paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for Tweets and whatnot. I express my opinion.

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

These Hillary supporters just drove a car into a giant ditch named Trump. They let Trump win. They let him become the most powerful man on Earth. Sorry, you're not getting the wheel again after driving into the ditch.

We humans are great at creating tools with unforeseen consequences. For instance, when we invented the wheel, we had no way of knowing we were also laying the foundations for the TV show 'Top Gear.'

When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.