Quotes About Consequences

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.

The most powerful person can wind up in jail.

Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.

Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instructive. Little boys who don't behave wind up in lots of trouble.

You know, I got kids. I got sons, and I try to tell them, 'Look, man, when you in the car and you get pulled over, hands on the steering wheel. 'Yes, sir. No sir.' Your job is to either wind up in jail, so I can come get you, or be able to pull off. That's your job.'

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.

In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes.

Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

Winning, you can overlook so many things.

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.