Quotes About Consequences

You cannot build stairs on a broken pillar; otherwise, you risk consequences; similarly, you cannot constitute trust again on a broken trust that you broke; as a result, you will have to bear the burden of tears.

You hack my laptop program; I know; however, you do not realize that I know your all evil duties and deeds that destine hell for you.

Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can only be the result of misgovernment. I can hardly be held responsible for the outcome.

the human mouth is the gateway to catastrophe.

It's like this, ma'am, Michael is a fine big lad, used to a man's work and he has had a man's responsibility before now. Well, if he goes off and gets drowned, it will be because he was too silly to save himself. And if he's too silly to save himself, then it's worth no one else's while to save him, for he'll only live to get into some other trouble later on!

Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepared to make?

Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepare to make?

What else should she have expected? That he'd be here, waiting with open arms for her forever? No. She had hurt him. And he had done what any sane person would do. And now it was too late.

Money. Both cure and cause of so many evils, isn't it?

We're what our choices make us. What you didn't choose isn't part of you. What you do about it will be.

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

Jörgen var frjáls maður. Hann gat gert það sem honum sýndist en það var það versta sem fyrir hann gat komið. Frelsið sem hann þráði svo heitt var versti óvinur hans. Þegar hann var frjáls gerði hann vitleysurnar.

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

Of course, it is also good to have quite a few in a group who are not so alert to all the dangers and consequences of every action. They will rush out without a whole lot of thought to explore every new thing or fight for the group or territory. Every society needs both. And maybe there is a need for more of the less sensitive because more of them tend to get killed! This is all speculation, of course.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

One bad thing can often be rectified or overlooked, but several of them can sometimes coalesce into a compound disaster that sprouts tentacles and develops a self-directed will of its own, the kind of thing my dear old dad used to call a cluster fudge bar.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.

Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?