Quotes About Consequences

There are consequences for everything we do in life.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

In general, people's views of the Old Testament have often been determined by the picture they see of its social consequences and implications.

Whereas most people automatically anticipate the consequences of their actions, automatically feel shame for unkind deeds, automatically understand why they should persist in the face of frustration, automatically distrust propositions that seem too good to be true, and are automatically aware of their commitments to others, psychopaths may only become aware of such factors with effort.

There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.

They got it all wrong. They think they're doing good with their fight and their ignorance and discrimination and all that. But really, they're killing the earth with it.

Your time is not free, how you decide to use or not use your time will be paid at the end of your life

It's like this Punch them in the nose they may or may not do it again. but Punch them in the wallet while smiling they will think we are best friends for life

Desde el momento en el que el primero de nuestros antepasados convirtió un palo en una lanza, las consecuencias de los conflictos a lo largo de la historia han sido impuestas por la tecnologia.

If you see a flash of lightning far away, you can forecast with a high degree of confidence that a thunderclap is due. Forecasting the consequences of megapolitical transitions involves much longer time frames, and less certain connections, but it is a similar kind of exercise.

Lane, "Economic Consequences of Organized Violence," op. cit.

It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.

I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

I don't know who you people are, but I hope you're happy. I hope you get a real buggin' kick out of watching us suffer. And then you can die and go to hell. This is on you.

The ends justify the means. It should be WICKED's official logo. They should have a giant banner draped across the front entrance.

He looked down, saw that his hands and legs were shaking, and he suddenly felt freezing cold. "What have I done?" he mumbled, but the others didn't say a word.

But the well-intended idea had gone very bad. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man. With the residents well aware that there could be no real punishment or consequences worse than what they already faced, crime rates grew astronomically. And so the developments became havens of debauchery.

No one spoke. Thomas stared out the front window in a daze. He'd shot his best friend in the head. Never mind that it was what he'd been asked to do, what Newt had wanted, what he'd pleaded for. Thomas had still pulled the trigger. He looked down, saw that his hands and legs were shaking, and he suddenly felt freezing cold. "What have I done?" he mumbled, but the others didn't say a word.

Thomas didn't have to think. He reached out and took the cup, poured the liquid in his mouth, swallowed all of it at once. It burned like fire, searing his throat and chest as it went down; he broke into a lurching, wracking cough.

But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

Nothing can comeof this nothing can comeOf us: of me with my grim techniquesOr you who have sealed your wombWith a ring of convulsive rubber:Although we come together,Nothing will come of us.

Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.