Quotes About Consequences

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is that which we create ourselves. And that is what a work of art is, it is what a constructed life is, a fulfilled life, the warmth of acts.

Si Dios no existe, todo queda permitido.» FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKI

Realist saboteurs do not, as a rule, enjoy long careers. Everyone gets caught eventually.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

If a man in love commits some misdeed ... he will suffer much more at being observed in it by his love than by his father.

You know, there's one other thing I don't do, Vince. I don't have dirty, unprotected sex with some money grubbing skank who eventually files a paternity suit against me, which gets me kicked out of my own house and leaves me nothing but a living, breathing national disgrace.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun Tell me is it worth it all For I stole California from the Mexican land Fought in the bloody Civil War Yes I even killed my brothers And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore

Now the fundamental constitutional problem of the Long War has been answered. Government by consent, freely given and periodically capable of being withdrawn, is what legitimates the nation-state. Government under law—not government that is above the law—provides the means by which states are legitimated.* So the next question intrudes itself: what are the strategic consequences of the peace? What

Take warning then by them: choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice. Were

Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.

Bad systems" create "bad situations" create "bad apples" create "bad behaviors," even in good people.

diffusion of responsibility, in any form it takes, lowers the inhibition against harming others.

Futureoriented people believe that when you choose a behavior, you choose its future consequences, but Zajonc, Bargh, and many others in social psychology have demonstrated that sometimes you do not choose a behavior. Sometimes a behavior chooses you based upon the environment in which you find yourself.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

O homem era advogado e, por vezes, quando nos armamos em espertos com advogados, eles chamam-lhe desrespeito e metem-nos na cadeia.

It seems to me that lawyers can justify almost anything to themselves as long as it's legal. But you can make anything legal when you put a gun to parliament's head.

You give people chances. What they do with those chances is their own affair. It's

When you're working for people who are mostly thieves and murderers, a little of it comes off on your hands now and then.

Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong.

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