Quotes About Consequences

He'd refused to sack Honey Monster Shauna after she'd mistakenly included an extra zero in Gaelic Knitting and people ended up knitting christening shawls that were seventeen feet long instead of three.

Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

George] Steiner makes two other points worth mentioning about the consequences of language abuse: as usable words are lost, experience becomes cruder and less communicable. And with the loss of the subtlety, clarity, and reliability of language, we become more vulnerable to crude exercises of power.

This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.

Si cada cigarro que fumas te quita siete minutos de tu vida, cada juego de Dungeons & Dragons que juegas retrasa la pérdida de tu virginidad siete horas.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above all, mind what you say. "Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is a fire"—that's the truth.

one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible.

The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done.

But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never knoew what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spared the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing

While the Citizen can entertain aspirations for the society as a whole and take pride in its achievements, the Taxpayer, as presently imagined, simply does not want to pay taxes. The societal consequences of this aversion--failing infrastructure, for example--are to be preferred to any inroad on his or her momentary fiefdom.

I should leave, she told herself once or twice, to savor the thought of their surprise, their regret. What a childish idea. Then Jack would leave, no doubt, so that should would come back, as she would have to do, and her father would be plunged in sorrow of which she was directly the cause, and which would not end in this life.

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

That there have been wars I have no doubt. I believe that plague was a great sign to us, and we refused to see it and take its meaning, and since then we have had war continuously.

Una punta di rabbia di troppo, troppo spesso o al momento sbagliato, può distruggere più di quanto potresti mai immaginare. Soprattutto, bada a quello che dici. Vedete un piccolo fuoco quale grande foresta può incendiare! Anche la lingua è un fuoco: ecco la verità.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. Above

When did he first notice that in himself, that little fascination with damage and its consequences? He might alarm her. He might mean to alarm her. Doing damage to this fragile night because it was such an isolated thing, an accident, with a look of meaning about it and no meaning at all.

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.

Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here.

Bet, ak vai, cik ?auna bija pasaule, kas lika cilv?kam gr?kot.