Quotes About Consequences

Something to happen, something that got bigger than they were, something that had unintentionally major consequences. Ripples. That interests me.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

Why did God allow Jephthah's foolish vow to run its course? (D*)

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

Smeds could see the shadow of the future. Get Old Man Fish and Timmy Locan to kype the spike. Get dumb old Smeds to croak them when they do. Then take the loot and walk. Who is Smeds going to complain to when he has the blood of two men on his hands? That would be just like Tully. Just like him.

If you want to head for hell by way of smoking weed or opium, or by drinking, or by being dim enough to call a giant names to his face, go head. Enjoy the slide. I won't get in your way. Nope. I won't hand you a bucket of grease, either. You've got to do it on your own.

People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!

And I see red. The big tray of mashed potatoes is in my hands before I even realize what I'm doing. I heave it over the plastic sneeze guard, raining the entire load down on the advancing cop.

They think giving us sugar is like sprinkling water on the Gremlins.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you." My dad.

You have duplicated four of the worst people in human history, and unleashed them on the world!

He's right, actually. I'm an awesome patient. As soon as I hear him on the stairs, I spit out the three capsules I stored in my cheek and bury them in the soil of the geranium. That's what the thing's dying of—a drug overdose.

We grow through listening, aggressive listening: asking questions, watching intently what is happening around us, taking note of the good or ill consequences that befall people as a result of their choice making.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

while the Spanish Philippines became our first Asian real estate and the inspiration for close to a century now of disastrous American adventures in that part of the world.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .

Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.

What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour.

You can have a hundred women and still be a virgin, Pyle. Most of your G.I.s who were hanged for rape in the war were virgins. We don't have so many in Europe. I'm glad. They do a lot of harm.

Do you think it would be bad for me to have another glass? Vodka has never done anyone any harm.