Quotes About Consequences

Los enemigos son el precio del éxito

So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they'll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work. There's no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

Perhaps they had discovered that when enemies fall, they leave a hole.

Vigyázz az eskükkel, Tüske! Mindegyik egy-egy lánc, ami lehúz.

Most of us tend to be truthful until we are punished for it.

Emotions are the chemical consequences (or feedback) of past experiences.

Para poder cambiar debes modificar la imagen que tienes de ti y del mundo, para abrirte a nuevos conocimientos y experiencias. Esto es lo que la lectura de este libro hará por ti. Tus fallos del pasado vienen de un error: no te has comprometido a vivir asumiendo la verdad de que tus pensamientos tienen consecuencias tan importantes que crean tu propia realidad.

your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality

Always, in order to change, we have to come to a new understanding of self and the world so that we can embrace new knowledge and have new experiences. That is what reading this book will do for you. Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven't committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.

Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven't committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality

The death toll from health care screwups adds up to at least 500,000 Americans annually. That is the equivalent of more than three jumbo jets crashing every day of the year (or over 1,000 jets annually). Because these individuals are dying at home, in hospitals, or in nursing homes, no one is counting the bodies. There is no outrage, no plan to change a system that allows too many to die unnecessarily. The medical profession seems largely immune to the consequences of its errors.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did 'em.

Bing," Manx said, "I thought I told you to put Mr. and Mrs. de Zoet in the spare room!" "Well," Bing said, "they aren't hurting anyone." "No. Of course they're not hurting anyone. They're dead! But that's no reason to have them underfoot either!

It went to show that no one knew, when they abandoned a thing, what misuses it would be put to later by others.

It'll always bother you, wondering what you missed out on," Merrin said now. "That's how men are. I'm just being practical. I'm not waiting to get married to you so I can fight through your midlife affair with our babysitter. I'm not going to be the reason for your regrets.

Are you sure I can't have a little sniff of Oxy?" the doctor asked. He brightened. "I'd share. We could get fucked up together.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good.

They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.

She thought, too, with a certain calm satisfaction, that if the bridge did crash into the river, ten stories below, and she was smashed in the rubble, it would be her parents' fault for fighting and driving her out of the house, and that would teach them.

She wasn't sure good intentions always paved the road to hell, but they for sure weren't the highest standard of medical care. She

Folks woke up today to a poisoned world, and some of them won't see any reason to hold back on doing the awful things they've always dreamed of.

Without understanding exactly how the trap got sprung, he can feel its teeth in him.

Pensando bem — disse ela —, a maioria das coisas boas surgiu para facilitar o pecado.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.