Quotes About Consequences

Boxers wear tape to protect their hands. But you get dependent on the tape, and then you don't know how to hit someone without it. Even Mike Tyson once broke a hand when he hit another fighter barehanded in a late night brawl. In a real fight, if you break your hand, you probably just lost the fight. If you were fighting for your life, you probably just lost that, too.

A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen exposed nearly its oldest part. I had lost my sense of urgency, rekindled a sense of what people were, clambering to gain access to high waterfalls and a sense of our endless struggle as a species to understand time and to estimate the consequences of our acts.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

So the researchers concluded that being forced to confront trade-offs in making decisions makes people unhappy and indecisive.

The benefits of having options are apparent with each particular decision we face, but the costs are subtle and cumulative.

AS WE HAVE SEEN, REGRET WILL MAKE US FEEL WORSE AFTER DECISIONS—EVEN ones that work out—than we otherwise would, especially when we take opportunity costs into consideration.

there is a cost to having an overload of choice.

Most good decisions will involve these steps: 1. Figure out your goal or goals. 2. Evaluate the importance of each goal. 3. Array the options. 4. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. 5. Pick the winning option. 6. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign to them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities.

Thus the growth of options and opportunities for choice has three, related, unfortunate effects.   It means that decisions require more effort. It makes mistakes more likely. It makes the psychological consequences of mistakes more severe.  

if the ends are sufficiently important to require lies instead of the truth.

thirty pieces of silver.

Boys grow up to be men . And it's men who cause all the trouble. They're the ones who shed the blood and poison the earth.

Never whistle for the wind unless you want it to blow,' Ã¢â'¬Â she said.

Bad people need to pay a price. And the price should be high. ~Billy Summers

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility.

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.

I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn: murder is sin, murder is damnation (surely of one's own mind and spirit, even if the atheists are right and there is no afterlife), but murder is also work.

But most of all they only say you were caught, that you wanted to be King, that it must be so.

you pay for what you get in this world. Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for...and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

I was just following orders. The people elected me. But who elected the people?

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

Had we to do it over again," he said in an interview sixteen months after the invasion, "we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success.