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Quotes About Consequences

It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.
~ Ernest Cline
No, we always get killed because of you, Leeroy Jenkins!
~ Ernest Cline
played it over and over, each time mouthing the words to the single lyric spoken in the middle of the song: "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
~ Ernest Cline
Admittedly, all the time I'd had to devote to the game had shaved a full point off my grade average, and it had probably cost me my relationship with Ellen, too.
~ Ernest Cline
Through sheer force of will and brainpower, he'd once again turned science fiction into science fact, without much regard for the long-term consequences.
~ Ernest Cline
think it could help humanity. But it could also make things even worse. It will all depend on the timing, I think.
~ Ernest Cline
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.
~ Ernest Greenwood
You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
~ Ernest Hemingway
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?
~ Ernest J. Gaines
A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
~ Ernest Leroy Boyer
Un uomo è quello che ha commesso. Se dimentica è un bicchiere messo alla rovescia, un vuoto chiuso.
~ Erri De Luca
Logically, federalism, brought to its ultimate consequences, applied not only to the different places people inhabit but also to the various functions they perform in society, right to the commune, to whatever association, up to the individual, means the same thing as anarchy - free and sovereign units that associate for the common benefit.
~ Errico Malatesta
Non v'è dubbio che bisogna difendersi; ma dal sistema che si adopera nella difesa dipende in gran parte la sorte della rivoluzione. Che se per vivere si dovesse rinunziare alle ragioni ed agli scopi della vita, se per difendere la rivoluzione si dovesse rinunziare alle conquiste che sono lo scopo primo della rivoluzione, allora varrebbe meglio essere vinti onoratamente e salvare le ragioni dell'avvenire, anziché vincere tradendo la propria causa.
~ Errico Malatesta
what matters most is what is happening, with whom it is happening, how it is happening, when it is happening, how one feels about what is happening, and especially, what are the consequences of what is happening.
~ Erving Polster
It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
~ Esi Edugyan
It ain't really Czechoslovakian,' I said, coughing. 'We used to call it the Cheque. Like, you drink it up now, you pay for it later.
~ Esi Edugyan
Kids who get Bart Simpson dolls too easily grow up to be punks who steal from candy stores, because they're used to getting whatever they want the easy way.
~ Etgar Keret
There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.
~ Etgar Keret
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
~ Etgar Keret
At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer ' we invariably choose the money.
~ Ethan Hawke
How can I be honest with you," he said, "when you are not honest with yourself" "You are bound—some time—to reap what you have sown.
~ Ethel M. Dell
Anders gestel, Ian: Wat is die afsnypunt van historiese skuld? Uit hoe ver terug mag ons die wandade van voorgeslagte byroep om die huidige geslag mee te blameer? "Ek
~ Etienne van Heerden
My voluntary confinement here is restricted less by time than by my earthly existence. In essence I am dead -- dead for my children -- dead for my work ... I am dead but not yet buried, or buried alive -- whichever, the consequences are nearly identical ...
~ Eugene Botkin