Quotes About Consequences

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared.

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.