Quotes About Consequences

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

the Secret Service is now saying that Hinckley could have been stopped. All it would have taken was for Delahanty and the other Metro Police officers on the rope line to continue facing the crowd as Ronald Reagan departed the Hilton. It is a question that will dog Thomas Delahanty the rest of his life.

The German penchant for detailed record keeping proved to be their undoing: the date and cause of death for each inmate was dutifully recorded.

either live happily ever after—or murder the president of the United States.

The whites have shown themselves capable of great brutality toward the Indians of the Northern Plains. The Americans should expect the same in return.

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.

That's my business." "Not if it involves breaking the law. Not if you don't want me to cloud up and rain all over you.

Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.

I think sometimes you get bigger than life and don't realize the consequences of your decisions,

Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good in your life.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

I once treated a 24-year-old construction worker who had scraped his leg but could not afford to take off work. By the time I saw him, the small wound that developed had become a severe infection. He remained in the hospital for days and eventually had to have his lower leg amputated.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.