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Quotes About Consequences

Next card: 'The right answer is to walk away, but I ain't weak. I've seen what happens to weak people.
~ Shawn Goodman
One day we will all stand alone and answer to God for the choices we have made in our lives. It will not be enough to say we did not get help because no one would come with us. Life is not easy, but we make it much more difficult when we refuse to be honest about what we feel. For the short term, not being honest may seem easier, but in the long haul, we pay a heavy price.
~ Sheila Walsh
In both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections Bush's minions employed tactics that revealed a chain of corruption extending from local officials to the highest court, all with the intention of thwarting the popular will.25 The long-run consequences may prove more significant than the clouded elections: a popular distrust of the significance of elections themselves.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
You didn't do anything illegal, and you shouldn't be penalized just because the technology outpaced the theology.
~ Sheldon Siegel
if a being has sufficient sense of justice and civility to know it has done wrong, knowing it has done wrong is often sufficient punishment. If the being has no remorse, punishment will only increase its anger.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
It seems ridiculous, but when people are self-righteous, they really tend to prefer punishment to prevention.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
I had left the tribe, and I was being punished for that.
~ Sherman Alexie
He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.
~ Sherman Alexie
Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11?
~ Sherman Alexie
Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.
~ Sherman Alexie
You're cute and smart, and you've gotten everything you've ever asked for, and that makes you lazy and dangerous." "Wow
~ Sherman Alexie
The abused can become abusers. It's a tragic progression.
~ Sherman Alexie
Hey, T-Rex? Remind me next time I want to get smartass with you that it's a really stupid move on my part? (Talon) Oh, no, you don't, you wuss. You told me the next time you saw Ash you were going to ask him if he'd seen the movie 10,000 BC and if it'd made him homesick. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No good deed goes unpunished- Syn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lovey-dovey bullshit. Now let me tell you about what happens when you betray everything you hold dear and the bitch doesn't return the favor. Oh, wait, you know that lesson already. The problem is you take the leap and you don't know until it's too late to pull back if you're going to land on a foam-covered mattress or jagged rocks where you lie impaled, slowly bleeding and wishing you'd just die already. (Jaden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon