Quotes About Consequences

People who are forever breaking the rules, trying other roads, attempting to create their own system of values and truth from scratch, spend most of their time calling up someone to get them out of trouble and help repair the damage, and then ask the silly question "What went wrong?" As H. H. Farmer said, "If you go against the grain of the universe you get splinters.

Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

The more comfortable we are, research suggests, the more destruction we are likely to be causing.

Clinton chose his language very carefully. About Rwanda, he said that, at the time, he "did not fully appreciate" the extent of the genocide. Not that he did not know. Because he did know. The Washington Post reported piles of bodies six feet high, and the evening news showed rivers choked with corpses. Regret, not action, had been his policy decision. Regret, he hoped, would not cost him anything.

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Miss Minton knew she was going to be dismissed, and she thought this was perfectly fair. A governess who let her charge sail up the rivers of the Amazon and live with Indian tribes could hardly expect to keep her job.

If you want something enough you usually get it. But you have to take what goes with it.

Kidnapping children is not a good idea. All the same, sometimes it has to be done.

This is for your stubborn insistence on willfully endangering us both." Smack!

Breaking up with a woman tends to be a lot harder if she can turn into a panther and rip out your throat.

The main reason I got released from Shrewsbury in the first place was for what I was doing off the pitch.

If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.

Any show that kind of relish the damage of its main character without really investigating what that damage does, where it's from or what it means, is a show I think needs to be taken down a peg.

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.

Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

If you are going to misuse power then one must remember that power does not remain forever.

Cargo shipping, cruising, mining, oil drilling, fishing - all these industrial activities could expand to the Arctic, one of the last remaining wild places, and with potentially devastating consequences.

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.