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Quotes About Consequences

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.
~ Philip Pullman
What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.
~ Richelle Mead
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
~ Edward Young
There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.
~ Frederick Lenz
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.
~ Frederick Lenz
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
~ Garrett Hardin
History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.
~ Garry Kasparov
A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.
~ George Weigel
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.
~ George Will
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
~ Harold Wilson
When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.
~ Haruki Murakami
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
~ J. C. Ryle
If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!
~ Jake Knotts
I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.
~ James Patterson
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
~ Jasper Fforde
I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.
~ Jim Butcher
The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy
~ Jim Morrison
The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.
~ John Dryden
My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy
~ John Warren Kindt
Some only learn the value of time when it's too late!
~ Stephen Richards
But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Everything you have said will not matter anymore one day, only those things that you never said will always haunt you and strangle you every time you see your world in someone else's hand.
~ Akshay Vasu