Quotes About Consequences

Unleashing a killing spree on Quaker property is a bit of a faux pas

It simply had never occurred to Annie during all her years of child-rearing that terrible things would not happen to her children just because she would not do terrible things to anyone else's.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

there is a life to come – wait and see – and that in the life to come we will feel the pains that we inflicted on others. We will suffer all that we made them suffer, for after death all experience is reversed.

To - to uto?ište mogao je imati, vjerovao je, da samo kaže jednu rije?. Zašto onda ne kaže tu rije?? Zato što bi današnje uto?ište moglo biti sutrašnja tamnica.

You burn the house to roast the pig.

imagine where our current delusions about reality might lead us.

You might wince at the fact that I put economics ahead of your family, your friends, and the rest of the world, but there's a reason. If you don't get your personal financial engine working right, you place a burden on everyone from your family to the country. Once

Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.

That was us.' I told him we were the kids who'd caused the Burneys' deaths.

Angry words might sometimes motivate children to do what you say, but a closer look reveals damaged family relationships. Short-term compliance comes at the cost of long-term closeness.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city. There are no limits in war, Volger said, still staring out the window.

Sooner or later usually means too late

He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship – one girl, really – had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city's millions. Then the wind shifted, and Alek breathed in the burnt-meat smells that filled the room behind him. Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed.

Good and evil come Unannounced, to Mankind:

El encargarse de locos acaba por dañar al mismo diablo.

I have not snares around thee cast; Thyself hast led thyself into the meshes. Who traps the Devil, hold him fast! Not soon a second time he'll catch a prey so precious.

Beware of wishing anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately stomped off wasn't going to stop her. She was going to cause the worst scandal London had seen in decades,and she didn't care!

But if the history of women's reproductive health demonstrates anything, it is that coercive policies are not only inhumane and unethical, they also fail to work, have extremely undesirable consequences—the neglect of Chinese infant girls is only one of the more drastic examples—and in the long run tend to discredit voluntary birth control programs, making people deeply suspicious of the entire movement to control fertility.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.