Quotes About Consequences

We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind.

It [this book] aims to confront the violence implicit in U.S. society from the moment of its conception, and the various narratives and forces that have taken shape to deny the consequences of that violence by popularizing and commercializing it.

I've learnt that if you let out your anger on someone, it comes back to you like acid reflux and you've poisoned yourself and feel toxic and nauseated while the taxi driver probably just goes back to his home and wife and has a lovely life. I

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?' Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost!

Slowly - slowly. It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward

Badly-treated children have a clear notion of what they are likely to get if they betray the secrets of a prison-house before they are clear of it.

All this, Man-cub, came of thy playing with the Bandar-log. True; it is true, said Mowgli sorrowfully. I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me.

Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.

Most true is it in the Great Game, for it is by means of women that all plans come to ruin and we lie out in dawning with our throats cut.

The hot wine had filled him. Under the stars he mocked me—therefore I killed him!

Fixing motives is like fixing blame-the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.

According to the Update Log, the company estimated that a member of the public, eating seaweed and seafood harvested from nearby the nuclear plant every day for a year, would receive an additional annual radiation dose of 0.6 millisieverts, well below the level that would be dangerous to human health. The company didn't estimate the consequences to the fish.

It was a feeling born of ignorance, the kind of heady existential euphoria that gives birth to mere heroics or to the unthinking patriotism of the kind that we see so often during war. These are dangerous consequences indeed, and I am filled with chagrin at having been so misled.

Najgori mogu?i scenario uvek se oblikuje iza zavese, gde niko ne može da ga otkrije niti da ga primeti, i onda jednog dana, bum, to postaje tvoja stvarnost. A kada jednom postane stvarnost, prekasno je da se bilo šta uradi.

Pealegi tabab karistus täitmatu ahnuse eest inimest alati siis - ja just seles seisneb karistuse piinarikas, hävituslik jõud - , kui tal on tunne, et ihaldatud eesmärgini on jäänud vaid samm.

Si tratas de curar la maldad con maldad, sumarás más dolor a tu destino.

Ahora miraréis, en la tiniebla, a los que nunca debisteis ver, y no a los que tanto ansiasteis conocer.

De los sufrimientos, los que más afligen, son los que uno mismo ha escogido.