Quotes About Consequences

These are the things I learned about being a parent, while not actually being a parent. That whatever you did you would probably be wrong. If you were cruel or dismissive or neglectful, you would leave scars upon your charge.

Some mistakes have greater consequences then others. You don't have to let one mistake define you

Certi errori... hanno semplicemente conseguenze maggiori rispetto ad altri. Ma non devi permettere che quella notte sia la cifra che ti definisce" (...) "Tu Clark, hai il potere di fare in modo che ciò non accada.

Ascolta, magari questa storia ci costringerà a prendere delle decisioni.

Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you." I

Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren't all destined to leave a trail of damage.

And she deserved it, didn't she? She had told herself, desperately trying to rationalize the hurt she was about to cause.

Dar pentru oameni ca noi, Ellie, nu exista iertare. S-ar putea sa descoperi ca sentimentul de vinovatie joaca un rol mai mare in viata ta decat ai vrea. Se spune ca pasiunea arde cu un motiv, dar cand e vorba de o legatura extraconjugala, nu au de suferit doar cei implicati. - Vezi tu, nu poti face pe cineva sa te iubeasca iar. Oricat de mult ai vrea. Uneori, din pacate, momentul....a trecut. -..... expresia "de-ar fi fost altfel" e un joc tare periculos.

Some mistakes just have greater consequences than others.

She told them everything—about Will and the six-month contract and what had happened when they went to Mauritius. As she spoke, Mum's hands went to her mouth. Granddad looked solemn. The chicken grew cold, the gravy congealing in its boat.

And yet something—perhaps an English predisposition not to appear rude, not to make a fuss, even if it does end up in your untimely murder—propels her forward.

Some mistakes ... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.

Entonces te voy a contar algo bueno -dijo, y esperó, como si quisiera cerciorarse de que le estaba prestando toda mi atención-, Algunos errores... tienen consecuencias mayores que otros. Pero no dejes que sea esa noche lo que te defina.

Alguns erros... apenas têm consequências maiores que outros. Mas você não precisa deixar que aquela noite seja aquilo que define quem você é.

That's fine," he said. "Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill.

people around me and I wonder if we aren't all destined to leave a trail of damage.

As one Democratic insider familiar with Mook's thinking put it, "When you're done with a condom, you throw it out.

But when it came to her own behavior—to the threat she posed to herself—she'd been incapable of gauging its gravity and reluctant to avail herself of the only option for fixing it. Too little, too late, she'd now tried to address it.

Jim Cannon, Baker's top aide, knew that his boss was "more responsible than he is ambitious." When Cannon advised Baker that voting yes would prevent him from becoming the Republican nominee for president in 1980, the senator snapped, "So be it.

an understanding that choices, once made, are absulote, that the realm of freedom exists only in the present and in the future, and that more harm than good is done in reimagining that some choice in the past might have been dismissed in favour of a better option. This kind of thinking will lead only to regret, to the rotting of a man from inside out.

Through the appropriation of public spaces and resources into the logic of the marketplace, individuals are dispossessed of many collective forms of mutual support or sharing. A simple and pervasive cooperative practice like hitchhiking had to be inverted into a risk-filled act with fearful, even lethal consequences. Now it has reached the point of laws being enacted in parts of the United States that criminalize giving food to the homeless or to undocumented immigrants.

The Rich man was let alone in his sin suffered to go on without molestation. He fared sumptuously every day, slept secure and expected no disturbance. And the first of his awaking out of his security was when he lifted up his eyes that were now opened being in torments.

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, "Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

Above all, the sense of personal responsibility was reduced by the way agency was fragmented. Among the airmen who obeyed the order to drop the bomb, the many scientists who helped to make it, the President, the many political and military advisers involved in the decision, who killed the people of Hiroshima? No one seems to have felt that the responsibility was fully his.