Quotes About Consequences

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

If you don't want your life to be 'messed up', don't fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.

You don't get a rebate at the end of your life for living with an idiot.

The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.

He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you over.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.