Quotes About Consequences

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

Treat your slaves well, my young Harvold," his grandmother would often say, "for if they die poorly at your hand, Skuld may send them back to tear you apart.

Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.

Secrets are always hardest at the beginning. After a while they settle in like the cavities in your teeth, and you only think about them when they hurt.

You can't fix stupid but you can arrest stupid.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

And just as in the George W. Bush years, war spending plus huge tax cuts conspired to produce gargantuan budget deficits.

Neither Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in Vietnam nor President Bush in Iraq had heeded the words of the nineteenth-century Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, who wrote that, in war, a nation should "never take the first step without considering what may be the last.

Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons.

As a matter of fact, despite your obstinacy, your infernal prying, and the fact that you invariably blurt out whatever comes into your head, regardless of the consequences, I admit that there are times when I find you irresistible, too.' I stared in astonishment at Robert's back as he rose to pay the bill. What in heaven's name, I wondered, did he mean by that?