Quotes About Consequences

In the end, despite all your careful introspecting, you pay for following your instincts. And the more intensely and honestly you live, the more incessantly you pay. If you have become that particular, irreducible person, you get precisely what you want but no more. This is the unforgiving truth.

if God took his hands off this fallen world so that there were no restraint on human wickedness, we would make hell. Thus if you allow a whole lot of sinners to live somewhere in a confined place where they're not doing damage to anyone but themselves, what do you get but hell? There's a sense in which they're doing it to themselves, and it's what they want because they still don't repent.

You said yourself they didn't hurt your girl." Waiting, Davy asked, "How many times does a dog have to bite before you put him down?

It becomes clear from Adeimantos' speech that Glaukon's view according to which justice is choiceworthy entirely for its own sake is altogether novel, for in the traditional view justice was regarded as choiceworthy chiefly, if not exclusively, because of the divine rewards for justice and the divine punishments for injustice, and various other consequences.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement, but on the contrary, it represented the triumph of a great principle: that much of the order we percieve in nature belies an invisible underlying disorder and hence can be understood only through the rules of randomness.

The confirmation bias has many unfortunate consequences in the real world.

complex systems (among which I count our lives) we should expect that minor factors we can usually ignore will by chance sometimes cause major incidents.8

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ...so liars beware

I know that there are numberless people who would, to satisfy a whim, destroy God and all the universe.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

For I know that there are numberless people who, in order to gratify one of their appetites, would destroy God and the whole of the universe. If this art has never remained among men, although so necessary to them, it never existed, and never will exist.

Cellad?n fikri ÅŸöyleydi: Gövdesi olmayan bir kafa kesilemezdi, zaten daha önce böyle bir ÅŸey yapmak zorunda kalmam??t? ve bu yaÅŸtan sonra da yapmaya niyeti yoktu. Kral'?n fikri de ÅŸöyleydi: Kafas? olan her ÅŸeyin kafas? kesilebilirdi ve bu konuda daha fazla saçmalaman?n anlam? yoktu. Kraliçe'nin fikri ise ÅŸöyleydi: EÄŸer bir dakika içinde bir sonuca var?lmazsa, oradaki herkesin kafas? kesilecekti.

we can but stand aside, and let them Rush upon their Fate! There is scarcely anything of yours, upon which it is so dangerous to Rush, as your Fate. You may Rush upon your Potato-beds, or your Strawberry-beds, without doing much harm: you may even Rush upon your Balcony (unless it is a new house, built by contract, and with no clerk of the works) and may survive the foolhardy enterprise: but if you once Rush upon your FATE--why, you must take the consequences!

It's too late to correct it," said the Red Queen: "when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?

poison or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker

Demasiado tarde para correcciones! —exclamó la Reina Roja—: Una vez que has dicho algo, ¡Ya está!, debes asumir las consecuencias.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

Quick answers often lead to quick regrets.