Quotes About Consequences

Robert Keller

Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out. They're fucking with the wrong people.

Monster cloud rising over Hiroshima, over the world — monstrous, mushrooming thing, sign of our age, symbol of our sin: growth, bigness, speed: grow, grow, grow — grow in a cancer, enlarge a factory, swell a city, balloon our bellies, speed life, fly to the moon, burst a bomb, shatter a people — explode the world.

If you are stupid enough to dine with the devil, for Christ's sake use a long spoon.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn. Maybe

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn.

This whole idea—rules of war—was absurd, she thought. Men went about killing each other in the most ingenious ways they could imagine, and on a scale never before seen, but at the same time, they insisted on making up rules of engagement to preserve a facade of civilization and morality. They were like children playing a game, but one with horrendous consequences.

Men went about killing each other in the most ingenious ways they could imagine, and on a scale never before seen, but at the same time, they insisted on making up rules of engagement to preserve a facade of civilization and morality. They were like children playing a game, but one with horrendous consequences.

Wherever humans had set foot, the carnage had been so brutal, so extraordinary, and so quick that the very thing making the killers rich was nearly eradicated in a hundred years' time.

Who are these characters? What do they want? Why do they want it? How do they go about getting it? What stops them? What are the consequences? Finding the answers to these grand questions and shaping them into story is our overwhelming creative task.

We burned to death 100 000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

because it was expensive to not know the law.

First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it. – Richard Feynman

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Tor said in a strangled voice, He will apologize, or I'll give HIM a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

When things are said in anger, irritation or frustration, you can put a hole into someone just like you have put a hole into that fence.

I thought that, ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes, and I felt certain that the choice I had made was the right one.

ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes, and

Failure's is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return

la vida consiste en tomar opciones. El destino de cada uno de nosotros depende de las opciones que tomamos

Qué sentido tiene malgastar tus mejores mañanas y los días potencialmente productivos escalando montañas que más tarde, cuando estéis débiles y arrugados, veréis que eran las equivocadas? Es muy triste.

ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes

Quienes dañan a los demás, silenciosamente, se detestan a sí mismos