Quotes About Consequences

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.

Pero todos comparten la misma falla trágica; todos tuvieron la opción de salvarse y tomaron el camino de la catástrofe; y sus novelas son dedicados estudios de ese largo error y de sus consecuencias.

Un mundo sin novelas es un mundo estancado, cuya visión de sí mismo se estanca, cuya identidad se estanca; en el caso de pueblos nuevos como lo eran los americanos, desesperados por saber quiénes eran y cual era su lugar en el mundo, esta carencia puede tener consecuencias dramáticas.

A menudo en la vida, cuando mejor crees que van las cosas, es cuando más cerca estás de pifiarla a lo grande. Una cagada épica y espantosa que antes de cometerla te parecerá una magnífica idea. Tan buena que irás cantando y bailando hacia ella, como una cucaracha que se zambulle en un barreño de insecticida haciendo un doble tirabuzón.

Y ya sabe el principio básico de cualquier programador. Lo que el usuario no sabe, al usuario no le hace daño.

When a fool does evil work, he forgets that he is lighting a fire wherein he must burn one day.

I was a fool to get involved with you in the first place. And you were a bigger fool for coming after me.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

We just stole a painting and smuggled ourselves off a train," Amy said, trying to sound confident. "And we can't shop ?

Any power (light, dark, masculine, feminine) may be used for good or evil; it is how it is used that affects the outcome. The power in itself is neutral.

fathered an out-of-wedlock child." "Well, at least he isn't shooting blanks," Grammy remarked phlegmatically. "Be careful, Allie. Make him marry you first.

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

Faith, my dear son, doesn't keep us from doing stupid things.

Remember, the bread will be tempting, but I can resist it. It's more important to me to lose weight. If I eat the bread, I'll get momentary pleasure, but afterwards I'll feel worse.

Responsável significa, naturalmente, amarrar o próprio sapato. Mas significa também não ter permissão para culpar uma infância terrível — ou uma paixão, uma tentação, uma ignorância ou uma inocência — por atos que são nossos, por ações que realmente praticamos. Pois se, na realidade, as praticamos, somos responsáveis.

Florence Dodson was murdered the same night that Claire Guthrie shot her husband. For me, the story began with Claire, and I put Mrs. Dodson on the back burner in my mind. That turned out to be a mistake.

Everyone is so excited. We're just dying, Becky! And it's all because of you," Lettie gushed. "If Eric wasn't your cousin, none of this would have happened." She gave me a big smile. "I'm so glad I'm your friend!" You won't be glad for long , I thought. Wait until Saturday night comes and there's no Eric. The girls in cabin eight would probably make me sleep outside with the squirrels. And I would deserve it.

I thought about all the dumb things I'd done since I got to camp. Telling everyone that Eric Richards was my cousin was dumb, but following Denni was even dumber.

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

Es gibt Gebiete des Denkens, die man nicht ungestraft betritt. Kopfschmerzen und ein schlechter Charakter sind der Mindestpreis.

Niemand weiß, wie oft er im Jahr, in der Woche oder gar in der Stunde Zeuge von Vorgängen wird, die eine Vorbereitung, ein Nachspiel oder einen kleinen Ausschnitt eines Ereignisses darstellen, das schrecklich, vielleicht sogar tödlich enden mag, dessen Einzelteile aber für sich genommen nicht das Geringste zu sagen haben. Unsere Unfähigkeit, solche Fragmente zu deuten, schützt uns vor der Schuld.

Everything I do, I am responsible for; there is always something else I could have done, some other attitude I could have taken up. To say I am overcome by emotion is to evade the fact that I was the one who acted, who thought at the time that what I was doing was the right thing to do.