Quotes About Consequences

I was humiliated to be charged with something so contemptible as sexual harassment. People think we had this big affair. It was a personal relationship that amounted to very little. I told her that I thought it was a mistake, and she became furious and sued me. She ended up dropping the case.

What did I tell you about killing your brother in the living room?

We fool ourselves into thinking we're strong then complain the rest of our lives crippled by the consequences.

the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

Don't crap where you eat

We all do stupid things, Conscience. If they don't kill us, they weren't stupid enough, I guess.

I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.

Do you think I was wrong to let that pitch go by?" "Yes. Absolutely." "You're right." "Then why did you---" "Because I didn't know it was wrong until I did it. I had to learn, don't you see? I had to see what would happen when I let my hatred for coach go like that. I had to take control completely, just for once in my life, and see where it led me.

Most good decisions will involve these steps: Figure out your goal or goals. Evaluate the importance of each goal. Array the options. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. Pick the winning option. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities.

But clearly, the lesson is that incentives can be a dangerous weapon. A critic of this research might say that the problem is not incentives, but dumb incentives. No doubt, some incentives are dumber than others. But no incentives can ever be smart enough to substitute for people who do the right thing because it's the right thing.

Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.

But sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things--a chance word, or a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on the newsstand--I am tempted to think that nothing dies. And that there are no little things.

What you put out is what you get back.

Thus through the folly of a single hot-headed general, whose offensive spirit was not balanced by judgment, the Empire suffered a blow from which it never recovered-although it had sufficient power of endurance to survive, in a diminished form, for a further four hundred years.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

We all have choices to make in life. And when we decide to go down that wrong road we'd be better off backing up and realizing that not only do you affect your life with some terrible choices, but the lives of people you love the most, and that's your family.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

It's amazing how filling my cup with empty calories can lead to filling out the rear of my jeans.