Quotes About Consequences

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

People seem to think of me as a goody-goody who never curses, but I can be very nasty if I'm pushed. Cross me too many times, and I'll never talk to you again.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

You see God's hands in so many situations. Then someone will point to all the bad things that are going on. Well, it's because we don't want God in our society. We are pushing God farther and farther away. And we can now see those consequences in our society.

If you keep on pushing someone, eventually you push them too far.

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.

Things like putting around a list and having your name on a list that objectifies you, that's a big deal, and it can have big consequences.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

If the Democratic Party follows the path of open borders, then the Democratic Party is going to engage in self-immolation.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'