Quotes About Consequences

It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences.

monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

Le bonheur est une chose si monstrueuse que, si vous n'en crevez pas vous-même, il exigera de vous au moins quelques assassinats. »

Las personas movidas por las mejores intenciones siempre son las que acaban convirtiéndose en monstruos.

Because it's yourself you really ruin, when you make someone else suffer

It is unexpected events, inevitable situations, the imperious necessities of successive epochs, which most often decide the conduct of the greatest powers and the most able politicians. It is after the fair, when the course of facts and their consequences has received full development, that, amidst their tranquil meditations, annalists and historians, in their learned way, attribute everything to systematic plans and personal calculations on the part of the chief actors.

Be very wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.)

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .

Hate has its uses, but it will serve you ill if you wear it so openly.

But Wine doesn't make anything go away! When you bury a big memory it's always still there, like an itch right down inside your bones where you can't scratch it, or somebody walking a step behind you that you can't look at. And . . . and if we didn't remember things we wish we hadn't done, wouldn't we just run off and do them again?

Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labour – he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Why don't we give her a crumb or two of that?" "For the same reason that I do not try to pull a thread free from a cobweb and use it to darn my socks," growled Grandible. "Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .

The common sense in Zouelle's words hit Neverfell like a slingshot. The last time Neverfell had appeared before Madame Appeline it had been in the role of captured thief, and the Facesmith had duly handed Neverfell over to the authorities. If there had been any chance of friendship between them, Neverfell's actions had probably killed it dead.

The Bible says we should know a tree by the fruit it bears," Makepeace replied, a little sharply. "If you burn my hand off, what should I think of you?

Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

It was fine to argue that murderers always made mistakes, and sometimes they did. And sometimes they didn't, and there you were.

hacerte responsable de tu vida y de tus actos, asegurándote de sus consecuencias. Es decir, no hacer daño a los demás ni a ti mismo.

The influence of sin touches the innocent as well as the guilty.

God has prescribed the remedy for the spiritual sickness of the human race. The solution is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ . . .if we deliberately refuse it, we must suffer the horrible consequences.