Quotes About Consequences

Come what may and hell to pay.

If we forgo matters of right and wrong on a human scale, we invite disaster in every door and window and via every mountain pass and harbor.

Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay." Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels, we all must grapple with the consequences of our Tendency—with its strengths and its weaknesses, its foibles and its frustrations.

To craft a sign that works for all Four Tendencies we should provide information, consequences, and choice.

He gave his assistant a stamped, addressed envelope with a check he'd written to an "anti-charity," an organization whose policies he passionately opposes, with the instruction to mail the check if he had a drink before the time was up.

Keeping a good habit costs us: it may cost time, energy, and money, and it may mean forgoing pleasures and opportunities—but not keeping a good habit also has its cost. So which cost do we want to pay?

In a nutshell, Rebels respond best to a sequence of information, consequences, and choice. We must give Rebels the information they need to make an informed decision; alert them to the consequences of actions they might take; then allow them to choose—

Information, consequences, choice. Without lectures or micro-management or rescue.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.

La felicidad es como la sífilis. Si la contraes demasiado pronto te echa a perder la constitución.

Aquello que se ama con violencia acaba siempre por matarle a uno.

What do you want? he then asked her. And with clenched teeth, and trembling with anger, she replied: I want--I want you to marry me, as you promised. But he only laughed and replied: Oh! if a man were to marry all the girls with whom he has made a slip, he would have more than enough to do.

Quello che si ama con violenza finisce sempre per uccidere. Ma come spiegare ciò che mi succede? Come raccontare in modo da farmi capire? Non lo so, non lo so più, so soltanto che è così – ecco tutto.

Be it so; but if you drive me to extremity, take care,—it is not always safe to make a woman desperate.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

In some cases . . . the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. . . . You use the knife carefully because you know it doesn't care who it cuts.

Asigna una etiqueta «Para resumir un argumento complejo en pocas palabras: no son los motivos perversos los que llevan a una conducta perversa, sino todo lo contrario: la conducta perversa, con el tiempo, genera motivaciones perversas.» Howard S. Becker

Do not call up that which you cannot put down.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. The triumph of sin in 1865 would have stimulated and helped to civilize both sides.

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

Hay zonas sombrías en los alrededores de nuestros senderos cotidianos, y cada tanto un alma maldita abre un portal en ellas para acercarse a nosotros. Cuando eso ocurre, el hombre que lo presencia debe atacar antes de que se desaten terribles consecuencias

As I told you longe ago, do not calle up That which you can not put downe; either from dead Saltes or out of ye Spheres beyond.