Quotes About Consequences

What you give comes back to you. It's not tit for tat--life isn't that simple--but what you give always comes back to you.

A dumb-ass piece of wisdom that has been proven wrong too many times to count. Words can cause as much damage as a fist. They can leave deep scars that never fully heal. And they can kill.

And all I'd done a few weeks ago was mention Trickster Night, so everything that happened afterward really wasn't my fault.

But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.

When would humans realize they always started the fights that would kill them? He

If you break the agreements with the terra indigene , the terra indigene will strike back and strike hard.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

The genetic arms race suggests that men want the drama of fast-track sex without personal consequences and that women take a longer view incorporating protracted parental commitment.

If a sportsman true you'd be Listen carefully to me; Never, never let your gun Pointed be at anyone; That it might unloaded be Matters not the least to me. You may hit or you may miss, But at all times think of this: All the game birds ever bred Won't pay for one man dead. Forty

Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.

The anticipated benefit must always outweigh the potential risk when an intervention is to be used. ...Proceeding with any intervention may produce undesirable results. Likewise, failing to intervene when it is called for can have dire consequences.

Not a bit. I don't hold with all that 'sins of the father' nonsense.

Sometimes doing the right thing wounds others — and also wounds the wounder.

So many wounds are inflicted almost without thinking, aren't they? We never sin unto ourselves. Sin invariably involves others, usually affecting those who are closest to us.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

The strange boy looked astonished. "Why don't you fight then?" He asked crossly. "Because if I hit you back, I'd be no better than you are. I'd be just as rotten and worthless and I'd have no right to be free!

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

What happened to you? Did you finally annoy someone enough to have them beat the shit out of you?

Hazel could not explain that she had forgotten, that there was Jack and soul-sucking villains, and sometimes you are too scratchy to remember the things you are supposed to do, even if you do feel really bad about it later.

You can't just kill a swan and wrap yourself in its skin, you know. It takes something from you. In her case it took the thing that she wanted most.

But should it matter what we do as long as we use our strength courageously and lead a life without desperation to the end? Isn't it wrong to escape, make a detour and be lost, all of which have led me here to the farthest-flung edge of the world? Wouldn't I have had a good courageous life if only I had been able to resist sickness and fear? Will I be made to face the consequences just because I had nothing to counter a nameless and agonizing desperation?

I CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUT YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SORRY.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.