Quotes About Consequences

Actually, Hamilton's exploding cannon may have killed as many as six of his men and wounded four or five others. Some critics blamed inadequate training for the mishap, but the general dissipation of troops addicted to whoring and drinking was more likely to blame.

Grant's fortuitous move to Illinois on the eve of the election had monumental consequences, conveniently situating him in the president's home state and overtly pro-Union northern Illinois. It also placed him in the district of Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, an emphatic Lincoln supporter. Had Grant remained in Missouri, riven by internal strife, he would never have enjoyed the same chance for rapid advancement in the coming war.

It turned out that before he had stalked Garfield, Charles Guiteau had stalked Grant.

Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference.

More than one person who was refused later accused Rockefeller of having ruined him.

Mr. Rockefeller may have made himself the richest man in the world, but he has paid.

Not "unless we find out . . . they have done something we regard as wrong

In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Not only had Burr's plan failed to provide pure water but it had thwarted other sound plans afoot, including those for a municipal water company.

Hamilton always expressed himself frankly, no matter what the consequences.

William's imprudent decision figured importantly in the enormous disparity in wealth that developed between the two brothers.

Had the action not been taken, more than half the brokerage houses on Wall Street might have gone belly-up.

Why? In the days of Jeremiah, God said, "I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone out into all the land" (Jeremiah 23:15 NKJV). The prophets of Jerusalem should have been decrying evil by giving out the pure water of the Word, but they were catering to the morally corrupt by giving out the poisoned water of false doctrines. Hence, God judged them. What

We're like schoolchildren playing with matches. One day we'll burn the house down.

I have a knife. And I have a rule. Pull a knife on me, I break your arm.

They had a choice. They could have been upstanding human beings. But they chose not to be. Then they chose to mess with me, which was the final straw, and they got what they got. So I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

Because mistakes of a certain type have the kind of consequences that people with consciences don't like to live with.

In 1943 they had started a firestorm that all but wiped Hamburg out. Flames a thousand feet high, temperatures of a thousand degrees, the air on fire, the roads on fire, rivers and canals boiling. Forty thousand dead in one raid. Britain had lost sixty thousand in the whole war. They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea, one of the twelve minor prophets, but dead on the money in that case. The

that it's easy enough to shoot a man. But there's absolutely no way to unshoot one.

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

Smart, conscientious people hate making mistakes. Not just because of ego. Because mistakes of a certain type have the kind of consequences that people with consciences don't like to live with.

All the guys Reacher had ever known, fraud, theft, homicide, and treason, right up to the very end believed there was some chance of getting away with it, and therefore something should be salvaged, if possible. No one wanted to start over with nothing.

Standing up for what you believe in comes has a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

Three men dead, two people injured, and a civilian traumatized by having to kill a man. The department is probably facing tens of millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements. Tell me why I shouldn't walk out of here with somebody's badge in my pocket for this?