Quotes About Consequences

Words like that can cost a man his head.

How many fools have looked forward to the adventure that killed them.

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.

I'll give you another chance," he says. "The next time it'll be jail. Keep this in mind. If you're brought in again, no excuses will go. Call the next case." Now one can follow Fanny. She walks out of the courtroom. The street swallows her. Nobody in the crowds knows what has happened. Fanny is anybody now. Still, one may follow. Perhaps something will reveal itself, something will add an illuminating touch to the incident of the courtroom.

We've created a system that demands almost no engagement with our food; we've wrung all the responsibility and sweat equity from the process. It's not that we're getting something for nothing - after all, we do pay for our food, and we suffer the consequences of dining from the industrial trough. But charging a package of center-cut pork chops to your Visa is a hell of a lot different than facing down the source of those chops with a .22 in one hand and a well-honed knife in the other.

there will be much personal misery . . . if fertility is so low that four grandparents must share one grandchild, and if lots of grandparents don't have grandchildren.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

His mind had been unhinged by the blast of detonators, nights spent with corpses and by the superstitious incredulity of having killed so many white men.

As long as you keep giving in," he said, "and as long as you keep rewarding her bad behavior, then she's going to keep right on doing it. Wouldn't you?

You have a neighbor, who smokes in bed. . . . Suppose he sets fire to his house," I would say later in an interview. "You might say to yourself . . . 'I'm not gonna call the fire department. Let his house burn down. It's fine with me.' But then, of course, what if your house is made of wood? And it's right next door to his house? What if the whole town is made of wood?

If they resisted, what damage could a period of legal uncertainty do?

The spillover effects of a takeover were also hard to anticipate.

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Reserve—nor would it be appropriate—to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their financial decisions.

leaving the buyers who had lent at longer maturities holding the bag.

Of course, by that time much of the damage had been done.

That outcome, too, carried risks.

That's not the same as, or nearly as bad as, failing to raise the debt ceiling and defaulting on government debt.)

that would simultaneously let investors who had misjudged risk off the hook. Richard

All this financial turmoil had direct consequences for Main Street America.

They condemned bailouts as giveaways of taxpayer money without considering the broader economic consequences of the collapse of systemically important firms.

My colleagues and I also were uncertain about the economic consequences of the war, especially its effect on energy prices.

The mistake increased Bear's shareholders' bargaining power.