Quotes About Consequences

Execution shed

Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.

A couple of pills started me down the Yellow Brick Road. Vodka tonic, double. What's the worst that can happen? I thought. I'll shit myself and choke on my own vomit in the back of a taxi or onstage. At least I'll die with dignity.

Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences. Wasn't that true of every creator? Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment? The poor human Prometheuses who brought fire to their fellows. Nobel.

Cheaters never prosper. (Because they suck.)

Cheaters never prosper

Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand. I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.

A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a chain of events that will take from him everything he has and damn him forever in the eyes of those he loves.

You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.

Greed, apathy, hubris—even loyalty—all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.

Marrying someone you don't love is a sin. Because it sends both of you to hell. It destroys the other person first, but in the end it gets you, too. The magnitude of what you've done, the damage you've caused by forcing you both to live a lie.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. —GALATIANS 6:7

For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one.

When you wrong someone, you don't get to say which grudges people may or may not hold

Remember what Confucius say: 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

If she pleaded not guilty, David said she could suggest that the boy had been the agressor, or maybe it was all some teenage fantasy that went too far. Maybe the sex never really happened. Mary Kay saw that scenario as ridiculous. Almost laughable. She didn't think it would work. I'm carrying his baby, she said. Scratch that.

The lie would grow into a disease. Cancer, probably.

three-year-old girl in a car unattended.

Getting rid of a body did not get easier as he got more practiced at it.

Our choices matter. Much hangs in the balance. Our freedom is God's risk and our dignity.