Quotes About Consequences

Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.

Hitler had led the Reich to victory after victory; now he would bring it to ruin.

When Vince was through talking that day, one of the grand jurors said, "Explain to me, to all of us, why in the world didn't you at some time go to Mrs. Reinert and warn her?" And by now Vince knew he'd spend the rest of his life being asked that question. And by now he knew that even when the words were not being uttered, the eyes were asking it.

The good leaders seem to get killed; the poor leaders get the men killed.

For you have sown the wind, and you shall reap the whirlwind

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

They will rue the day," Tucker growled.

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.

But the good guy knew the monster was there. He chose to drink. He chose to let it out. He liked it. And I doubt he quit liking it.

They sat quietly, both thinking of Marty Gray, and of all the bad things that can happen to young girls who are shy and good and obedient. The secret keepers. The easily led.

He was young, and he had grown up wealthy; he didn't have the context. In his head she'd faced the consequences he would have had to face. Embarrassment. An angry parent. A different, maybe less impressive school. He was not from a place where people got only one shot or were allowed only one mistake. In his world there were infinite chances.

Burr had to know I understood what I had done. I knew you couldn't kill only the pieces that needed killing, and leave the pretty parts whole.

Sometimes karma takes years to pay a person back, but that day, it had a fast backhand return...

That was the last time she was allowed back at the Bennigan's. From then on, she started drinking at the T.G.I. Friday's.

I learned early on that expressing yourself comes at a cost. Sometimes, it's a hefty price. People don't always want to hear the truth about what you feel.

The officers who are over-sure, and "know it all like a book," are the ones, I have observed, who wreck the most ships and lose the most lives.

Word of caution: try not to get so caught up in the action that you shoot the idiot who keeps knocking on your front door! "He should have waited until the commercial break," won't earn you an acquittal for justifiable homicide.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Love had different beginnings but always the same end. Someone was going to get hurt.

You can do anything you want in this world," J.C. said. "No, you can't," Emily said modestly. "Why, sure you can. And if you don't you'll never know the consequences. You won't be leading any kind of life at all.

I dont give advice. I cant tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.