Quotes About Consequences

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

If I don't read page ninety, it won't have happened to them. Black Beauty will still live with all his friends at Birtwick Park … The knights will be able to go on having jolly adventures without Lancelot meeting Guinevere and bringing the whole Round Table crashing down into ruin on their heads…

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

No woman should have as her life's mate a man who has mated with half the females in England, who brings home diseases and litters the countryside with his butter stamps. It's wrong.

Cause punishment takes the friendly right out of you.

The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, "The reason people get stuck is almost always an emotional reason…and they can get stuck for years…but the consequences are financial." And similarly, Kiplinger's reported, "Financial planners are increasingly finding themselves playing the role of psychologist as well as financial counselor.

Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or two. The man was evidently a superb athlete, though it was entirely Mary's fault that she fell asleep afterwards. Elizabeth took control of the company that very afternoon, by a vote of six to one, while a sated Mary slept. And the silly girl never knew what hit her.

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

government, in the words of one of the group, J. K. Galbraith, was rarely more than a choice between "the disastrous and the unpalatable.

We must put aside all commonplaces as to the responsibility of the aggressor.… Success alone justifies war.

The Brunswick Manifesto, rather than accomplishing Louis XVI's rescue, paved the way to the guillotine, which could have been foreseen if Karl Wilhelm had given the matter any forethought, but thinking ahead is given to chess players, not to autocrats.

Lanrezac's sin was in having been right, all too vocally. He had been right from the beginning about the fatal underestimation of the German right wing as a result of which a fair part of France was now under the German boot. His decision to break off battle at Charleroi when threatened with double envelopment by Bülow's and Hausen's armies had saved the French left wing.

The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in the campaigns of Mesopotamia, Suez, and Palestine, the ultimate breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the subsequent history of the Middle East, followed from the voyage of the Goeben.

The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in the campaigns of Mesopotamia, Suez, and Palestine, the ultimate breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the subsequent history of the Middle East, followed from the voyage of the Goeben. Other

the power to command frequently causes failure to think;

There's no remedy for a spat between friends like visiting flaming, whirling death upon your enemies.