Quotes About Consequences

His conduct has of late, been what the world calls irreproachable; but then I know his heart is still unchanged; and I know that spring is approaching, and deeply dread the consequences.

Its easily done, replied he, with a faint smile, bordering on a sneer: to abuse your friend and knock him on the head, without any assignable cause, and then tell him the deed was not quite correct, but it's no matter whether he pardons it or not.

It is nonsense to talk about injuring no one but yourself ... Without injuring hundreds, if not thousands, besides, in a greater or less degree, either by the evil you do or the good you leave undone.

But I must not blame them for what was, perhaps, my own fault; for I never made any particular objections to sitting where they pleased; foolishly choosing to risk the consequences, rather than trouble them for my convenience.

Her husband, however, upon this second misdemeanour, immediately sought and obtained a divorce, and, not long after, married again.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.

How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?

That's how every act of carelessness begins and ends. No one will notice, no one will hear, no one will pay the least bit of attention. Easy to say, but is it true?

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflect on all Jews.

I've always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair.

That's how every act of carelessness begins and ends. No one will notice, no one will hear, no one will pay the least bit of attention. Easy to say, but is it true?

When a rake falls, he falls forever. <3

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must.

You reap exactly what you sow; that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds.

And you were ready to silence a Harper, and that is a greater wrong, for when speech is restricted, all men suffer, not just I.

you ride a winged horse, you'd better have a wide net when you fall. And that takes money!

One renegade can discredit a hundred honest injuns.

If it were true, then Kristian had a far deeper and more urgent motive for killing Elissa than any of them had realized before.

We all know that things go on we'd sooner not think about, an' most folk mind their own affairs. But if yer forced ter know, then yer forced ter do summink.

not everything comes with an easy answer, or without a price.

Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl.