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Quotes About Consequences

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.
~ August Wilson
I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Educatia restransa trage dupa sine o psihatrie extinsa, caci vom avea tot mai multi bolnavi.
~ Augusto Cury
O silêncio dos omissos é combustível para a vilania dos canalhas
~ Augusto Cury
Hubo una vez un Rayo que cayó dos veces en el mismo sitio; pero encontró que ya la primera había hecho suficiente daño, que ya no era necesario, y se deprimió mucho.
~ Augusto Monterroso
If you are smart enough to add letters to math problems, you're smart enough to dig your own grave.
~ Aurora
All of it. Lincoln, Taft, what they did. The H-bomb, the RAND Corporation, the king of Persia, the whole long con of it all.
~ Austin Grossman
The people who hired me have been shot. The people who shot them have been shot.
~ Austin Grossman
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
~ Austin O'Malley
Criminals of folly? Ye but sin against self
~ Austin Osman Spare
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
~ Author Unknown
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
~ Author Unknown
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
~ Author Unknown
Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
~ Ayelet Waldman
The army struck hard at the roots of populist politics by assassinating Bhutto. The prime minister was arrested, tried for murder and hung in 1979. The Machiavellian prince had turned into the tragic character of Christopher Marlow's Dr Faustus, who had sold his soul to the devil for power and become a victim of his own intellect.
~ Ayesha Siddiqa
He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
~ Ayn Rand
If there is any purpose or direction in the evolution of a culture, it has to do with bringing people under the control of more and more of the consequences of their behaviour.
~ B. F. Skinner
Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.
~ B. J. Gupta
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.
~ B. J. Gupta
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
~ B.F Skinner
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
~ B.F. Skinner
The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again
~ B.F. Skinner
He closed his eyes, cursing the man to hell. Colt was a dead man.
~ B.J. Daniels
You hire another PI and you'll only get him killed - and start a shit storm that is going to rain down on not only you but also your husband and his daughters. You sure it's worth it just to get some dirt on your husband's former wife?
~ B.J. Daniels