Quotes About Consequences

We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.

Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben?

La vida, finalmente, no es otra cosa más que una suma de minucias que, por circunstancias aleatorias, se convierten en hechos trascendentales.

Tacere e struggersi è il castigo più grande che ci possiamo infliggere. A che è servito a me l'orgoglio e non guardarti e farti stare sveglia notte dopo notte? A niente! È servito a buttarmi il fuoco addosso! Perché tu credi che il tempo guarisca e che i muri proteggano, e non è vero, non è vero. Quando le cose arrivano tanto in fondo, non c'è modo di sradicarle!

Era a ese hombre a quien yo debía haber matado cuando yo era potro, cuando mis partes no estaban divididas, cuando yo, mi furia y mi voluntad éramos una sola cosa. p. 235

But hey! If you want to be rich, sometimes you have to sup with the devil. And nobody cares, least of all 'analysts', how long or how short your spoon is.

Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

A Dios, como al doctor Frankenstein su monstruo, el hombre se le fue de la smanos.

Had she been able to see into the future, she might have pointed out that she was previewing her successors' plans for a possible no-deal Brexit.

With Brexit, England would experience the consequences of not being careful what you wish for.

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

The Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man's thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

según le confesó Esteban a Rosalía, jamás habría admitido un aborto. «No era cuestión de arreglar un pecado con otro», remató el hombre. A

Quien propicia el poder de otro, labra su propia ruina".

Parents who give a lot of warnings raise kids who don't behave until they've had a lot of warnings.

Effective parenting centers around love: love that is not permissive, love that doesn't tolerate disrespect, but also love that is powerful enough to allow kids to make mistakes and permit them to live with the consequences of those mistakes.

The teenagers who make the wrong choice on alcohol are probably the same children who never learned how to keep their hands out of the cookie jar.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.

You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

Chateaubriand said of history: There are two consequences in history: one immediate and instantaneously recognized; the other distant and unperceived at first. These consequences often contradict each other; the former come from our short-run wisdom, the latter from long-run wisdom.