Quotes About Consequences

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices stay in their envelopes, you're making matters worse. When you finally have to deal with the problem - believe me, you will eventually - it will be exaggerated because you didn't take action.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.

I think alcohol is the worst drug of all. It makes you do things that you would never do or say things that you wouldn't.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

The worst thing that happens to you at college if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you will miss two hours of someone reading scintillating anecdotes about Medieval Ireland. The worst thing that happens to you in life if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you might lose your job as a first responder.

I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The consequences of overestimating a company and your ability to analyse it are greatly diminished when you're paying a lot less for it than your analysis shows it is worth.

I have always felt that no climb is worth losing the tip of a little toe.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.