Quotes About Consequences

Best be ready for the consequences when you go poking a porcupine with a stick, missy. Someone's bound to get hurt and it won't be the porcupine.

To do nothing is an action too, with inevitable consequences, and so that is not a way to escape pain and suffering either.

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.

What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data shows.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

I don't like it when people leave their takeaways on the street: it makes me sad and it draws foxes and rats.

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

While falling in love and getting married are good things, young people should think about the consequences as well, such as how their parents will react and the other problems that they will have to face.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

We need to stop all this over-puffiness of how wonderful everything is going to be when we leave the E.U. Because it's not. It's going to be very damaging for huge sectors of British industry. We've got to be realistic.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.