Quotes About Consequences

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

I'm afraid truth isn't the only thing that matters in law, Suzannah. And out in the real world, it doesn't matter at all.

There must be two types of choices. Choices you make that seem harmless but can wind up lead to someone's father dying, like deciding to have one more cup of coffee that morning so you need to go out and buy more and then cross the street without looking and make an oncoming car swerve into a telephone pole to avoid hitting you. And the other kind, when you know what you're doing will lead to something either bad or good.

All right, all right,' he [Leo] says. 'I know it's hilarious that Mrs. Kelly thinks I clogged up her toilet, but we have more important things to focus on.

For us, people who are not privileged enough to have the freedom to be good people, we have to make some bad choices and do some evil things. That's shitty, but it is what it is.

a young man whose birth, wealth, and consequent leisure made many habits venial which under other circumstances would have been inexcusable.

el brusco despertar no fue lo que ella había dicho, sino la constatación de que los adultos pueden equivocarse, pueden ser estúpidos, ineptos y holgazanes en su labor, y que no siempre te creen aunque les estés contando la verdad. Y cuando estas personas estúpidas e ineptas que no ven más allá de sus narices tienen poder sobre ti, cuando no se creen lo que les estás contando, pueden ocurrir cosas malas

Yo nunca quiero desear nada después de ver el daño que acarrea el deseo

It was only later that she would remember that the truth did not always set you free. And that you had to be careful what you wished for, because you might actually get it.

Don't throw away your freedom by stealing a handcuff."

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.

So geht es mit Tabak und Rum: Erst bist du froh, dann fällst du um.

A living being does not fire blindly without knowing at what he is shooting and for what reason. Life had to have died within those who did so. This was not changed by the fact that the machines moved spontaneously, mechanically. If these mechanical men did not exist there would be no war. But how did they work? What controlled their actions? Who created them and why? How could living beings degenerate thus?

Shalt's" and "shalt not's" will break in later in a most tragic fashion and murder Christ in every single child.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

The Mexicans gave the Spaniards malaria, and the Spaniards gave the Mexicans smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria, and syphilis. The Spaniards believed it was better to give than to receive.

Either you like Henry VIII or you don't. He has been much criticized for beheading two of his wives. In a way, he has only himself to blame. Any man who beheads fwo of his wives musf expect a little talk. He shouldn't have done it, but you know how those things are. As a matter of fact, Henry merely let the law take its course, but some people feel that a really thoughtful husband would have done something about it

Organizations that take the word of overconfident experts can expect costly consequences.

correlation and regression are not two concepts—they are different perspectives on the same concept. The general rule is straightforward but has surprising consequences: whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.