Quotes About Consequences

You know what happens when you feed the birds? They forget to fly south and freeze to death.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who's saved? Who's not?

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." Don't settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

At sixteen Sabina took moon baths, first of all because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous. The effect of moon baths was unknown, but it was intimated that it might be the opposite of the sun's effect. The first time she exposed herself she was frightened. What would the consequences be?

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Nos actes s'attachent a nous comme sa lueur au phosphore. Ils nous consument, il est vrai, mais il nous font notre splendeur.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

What did he think? That time moved forward? No, for the good times it slipped out of your hands like water, but when things went wrong time stopped. It stopped and stared at you and never took its eyes away from what you'd done. I hope they hurt you in there. If you come looking for Susan, you will be sorry.

If my father had been working at the 7-Eleven in Wyoming last night, what would he have done? Would he have gone for Elroy's vital-organ zones? Or would he have aimed for his elbows, knees, and shoulders?

Sex standing up and walking on sand will bring any man to a bad end. He

I have a certain ruthless objectivity not uncommon among those who live inside the senses; I love him without restraint, without limit, without respect to consequences, for me or for him; I am not sentimental; I want him; this is not dopey, stupid, sentimental love; nostalgia and lingering romance; this is it; all; everything.

because they sincerely believe that their current policy has no alternatives, and that any other policy choice will bring ruin to them and their families.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

Mertins decided to get even. He rifled through der Hovsepian's papers that were filed on the Thomasberg estate, and gave the whole incriminating pile to the German authorities.34 Mertins had snitched on his partner.

Estimates given at the coffee machine will (like the coffee) come back to haunt you.

As a turning point, the Bay of Pigs deserves comparison with 9/11 - a moment that created an opening to pose first-order questions, but elicited instead an ill-conceived, reflexive response. As would Johnson, Carter, and George W. Bush, Kennedy in 1961 squandered an opportunity to rethink and reorient U.S. policy, with fateful implications.

An untreated severe cleft palate can have dire consequences and is undeniably a disability. But there is no simple equation whereby the existence of the fix means that the condition is no longer a disability; rectifying a condition is not the same thing as forestalling

What have I done? If I have killed my beloved lord, I will never forgive myself! And if he lives — neither will he!

It is better to forgive and lose than to face the consequences.

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.