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Quotes About Consequences

Leopardstar blinked. "I have.
~ Erin Hunter
Birchfall, you asked for that." Brambleclaw paused in digging up his vole. "ShadowClan shouldn't have accused us of trying to cross the border, but you put us in the wrong when you started the fight. Warriors should know how to control themselves." "Sorry," Birchfall mumbled. "So you should be.
~ Erin Hunter
the wood. The king was grieved, but he never thought that the queen had done this wicked deed. He took the girl
~ Beatrice Wood
Prolonged chronic malnutrition affects children for the rest of their lives because it affects both brain development and growth.
~ Bee Wilson
If you can cancel a child's hunger during those first three years - from conception to toddlerdom -you create possibilities that stretch decades into the future. If not, the consequences can last for generations.
~ Bee Wilson
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
~ beecher henry ward iii
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
~ beecher henry ward ix
Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.
~ beecher henry ward vi
Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.
~ beecher henry ward viii
Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.
~ beecher henry ward x
A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.
~ beecher henry ward xi
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.
~ beecher henry ward xiii
Punishments hereafter are suffer'd by one's self; and the world takes no cognizance whether this God has reveng'd 'em or not, 'tis done so secretly, and deferr'd so long.
~ behn aphra ii
There was a saying in Provence: "Those foolish enough to keep a snake as a companion will get bitten sooner or later".
~ Belinda Alexandra
If addiction is a disease, how do you first catch it? I mean, if you've never tried a single sodding drug in the first place, how could you become addicted? You couldn't. It wouldn't be possible. You are making a choice that first time. You are volunteering for the addiction. You know it's wrong and self-destructive but you do it anyway.
~ Belinda Jones
If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
The police never saw a noun they didn't want to turn into a verb, so it quickly became "to action", as in you action me to undertake a Falcon assessment, I action a Falcon assessment, a Falcon assessment has been actioned and we all action in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine. This, to review a major inqurity is to review the list of "actions" and their consequences, in the hope that you'll spot something that thirty-odd highly trained and experienced detectives didn't.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
If you overdo it, there are consequences. What kind of consequences? Strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms... How do you know when you have overdone it? When you have a stroke, brain hemorrhage or an aneurysm.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Do you know what happened to the last police officer who made a joke about DS Stephanopoulos?" "No, what did happen to him?" "Nobody else knows either
~ Ben Aaronovitch
If you overdo it there are consequences,' said Nightingale. I didn't like the sound of that at all. 'What kind of consequences?' 'Strokes, brain haemorrhages, aneurysms …' 'How do you know when you've overdone it?' 'When you have a stroke, a brain haemorrhage or an aneurysm,
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down – unless they're drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Per quanto possiamo cambiare, dobbiamo sempre pagare per le cose che abbiamo fatto.
~ Ben Affleck