Quotes About Consequences

It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.

In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.

Every war makes other wars more likely.

Which matters more to you, God or pretty illusions that you've been taught in God's name? (Or have you been clinging to the austere illusion of emptiness?) Consequences will flow from your choice.

The only reason I didn't kill my parents is because I did not want to spend my life in prison.

Screw you, John." "Sorry, Sylvie. Can't—they frown on that kind of thing between step-siblings.

were sickened. The punishment? The perpetrators were prosecuted in China and sentenced to death or life imprisonment.61

Her reaction was in character. Svetlana was at heart a gambler. Throughout her life she would make a monumental decision entirely on impulse, and then ride the consequences with an almost giddy abandon. She always said her favorite story by Dostoyevsky was The Gambler.

Willow shook his head. If he'd picked her lock a few days earlier, if he'd peeked into her closet, he'd have known then, and four people would have lived.

you show me a man what strikes while the iron is hot and I'll show you a man with a whole mess of third degree burns… Monroe D. Underwood

If, simply by nodding, you would acquire great riches, but at the same time bring about the death of an unknown mandarin in distant China – would you nod?

That was the trouble with alcohol as a sedative. It floated you off reality for a while, but it brought you back by a route that meandered through the ash-dumps of hell.

How the problem is affecting the kid (health, safety, learning) How the problem is affecting others (health, safety, learning)

The vast majority of kids I've worked with over the years had already endured more than their fair share of consequences. If all those consequences were going to work, they would have worked a long time ago.

Even as Jacob unwittingly embraced a bride who was not his choice, with unhappy consequences, so well-meaning Christian thinkers have unknowingly reasoned on premises they assumed to be Christian.

To deny to others their due praise and gratitude is not to rob them, for God will be their reward, but it is a judgment on ourselves. Never

The death of Jesus breaks the chain between evil actions and evil consequences

The challenge of this book is to understand how perpetrators come to do things that others see as evil.