Quotes About Consequences

Old sins have long shadows," quoted Poirot. "As we advance through life, we learn the truth of that saying.

Dr. Armstrong was driving his Morris across Salisbury Plain. He was very tired … Success had its penalties.

Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Dr. Armstrong, Anthony Marston, old Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, C.M.G., D.S.O. Manservant and wife: Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.

Do you know, M. Poirot, I rather hope that this case isn't going to be one of your successes. I'd quite like the murderer of Louise Leidner to get away with it. In fact, I wouldn't much have objected to putting her out of the way myself.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

COVID-19 is the reaction of nature to our abusive & willful misconduct.

Do unto others much worse than than they'll ever do unto you and you'll never get hurt ever again" -James "Buck" Bukowitz

God has to pay a price for the monsters that we create" -Mental Hell

Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later

Où veux-je en venir ? A cette idée : que nul ne colonise innocemment, que nul non plus ne colonise impunément ; qu'une nation qui colonise, qu'une civilisation qui justifie la colonisation - donc la force - est une civilisation malade, une civilisation moralement atteinte, qui, irrésistiblement, de conséquence à conséquence, de reniement en reniement, appelle son Hitler, je veux dire son châtiment.

At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.

Nothing can escape the law of Karma. Not only does it work in this lifetime,it also works beyond death.

There is a Cosmic Law, don't forget! What we Give, is what we Get. So, we Must know that if we Sin, we will Suffer, we will never Win.

There is a Cosmic Law, don't forget! What we Give, is what we Get. So, we MUST know that if we Sin, we will Suffer, we will never Win.

Your Life of Today is the unfolding of your actions of Yesterday, and will dertemine the Destiny of Tomorrow.

Your Life today is a Reflection of your Actions of Yesterday and will determine the Consequences of Tomorrow.

We never really get away with anything.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and evil for evil.

But I often wonder what would have happened if I had actually been drafted. I had failed military training in middle school, and I had no certificate of officer's competence. There would have been no way for me to stay afloat in the Army. On top of that, if I had ever run into that Army officer who had been attached to Keika Middle School, it would surely have been the end for me. Even thinking about it now makes me shudder.

Karma functions automatically, without the need of some kind of godlike arbitrator. Meritorious acts give rise to good results, and evil causes adverse results. This is a law analogous to natural law. Each person receives upon him- or herself that retribution or rewards for his or her own acts. That is why Buddhist texts do not say "to be punished" or "to be thrown into hell," as though a god were the agent, but rather "to receive retribution" and "to fall into hell.

Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

You make all these decisions in your life, and they all seem like the right decisions at the time. You think you're doing the right thing. And it's only later that you realize, no, they were exactly the wrong decisions, and instead of bringing you what you wanted, they only carried you even farther away from your dreams. And somehow you've got to live with that.

Relax now. That's the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one's leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.