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Quotes About Consequences

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
~ Statius
each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.
~ Storm Jameson
Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
~ Susan Griffin
The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
~ Terence McKenna
Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.
~ Terry Pratchett
Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.
~ Tonya Hurley
Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.
~ William Cowper
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
~ William Shakespeare
Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.
~ Zoey Dean
There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
~ Lance Armstrong
Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.
~ Lawrence Solomon
Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!
~ LeBron James
The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.
~ Lucy Powell
Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.
~ Malcolm X
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
~ Matthew Henry
I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.
~ Melissa Gira Grant
Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
~ Miguel de Cervantes
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.
~ Mira Grant
Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.
~ Naomi Wolf
How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.
~ Neal Shusterman
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
~ Mark Twain