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Quotes About Consequences

It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tom et Daisy étaient deux êtres parfaitement insouciants — ils cassaient les objets, ils cassaient les humains, puis ils s'abritaient derrière leur argent, ou leur extrême insouciance, ou je-ne-sais-quoi qui les tenait ensemble, et ils laissent à d'autres le soin de nettoyer et de balayer les débris.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made....
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.
~ Fannie Flagg
Historically the lesson is clear: if growing inequalities are not addressed by reforms, revolution might follow.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Without credit default swaps, there might never have been a President Donald Trump.
~ Fareed Zakaria
You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.
~ Fatima Bhutto
each of us does what we have to do for our own personal happiness. Because we're the ones who have to live with that happiness. If it's at someone else's expense, we have to live with that, too.
~ Fern Michaels
Les meten malas ideas, y como son jóvenes, caen en la trampa. Luego se creen unos héroes porque llevan pistola. Y no se dan cuenta de que, a cambio de nada, porque al final no hay más premio que la cárcel o la tumba, han dejado el trabajo, la familia y los amigos. Lo han dejado todo para hacer lo que les mandan cuatro aprovechados. Y para romperles la vida a otras personas, dejando viudas y huérfanos por las esquinas.
~ Fernando Aramburu
Son cosas que pasan. Lo único es que en la cárcel duelen más.
~ Fernando Aramburu
Nosotros heredamos la destrucción y sus resultados.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A society so undisciplined in its cultural foundations could obviously not help but be a victim
~ Fernando Pessoa
we're shadows of gestures performed by someone else, embodied effects, consequences that feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?
~ Flann O'Brien
time goes forward, it don't go backward and unless you take what's offered you, you'll find yourself out in the cold pitch black and just how far do you think you'll get?
~ Flannery O'Connor
She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every day of her life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not.
~ Flannery O'Connor
She would have been a good woman," the Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life
~ Flannery O'Connor
Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
~ Vic Snyder
People were laughing at us and we knew it was our fault. The scandal caused us a lot of pain but I guess it made us face reality.
~ Rob Pilatus
I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.
~ Jon Taffer
The Fed cannot save us from ourselves.
~ Anthony Scaramucci