Quotes About Consequences

We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

You may delay, but time will not.

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.