Quotes About Consequences

We are wary of you, Elric. Even if we allowed you to lead us again you would take your own doomed path and us with you. There is no future here for myself and my men.

People think a bomb is a mechanical object, a mechanical enemy. But you have to consider that somebody made it.

The bitterness of Poor Quality remains long after the sweetness of Low Price is Forgotten. From Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin.

In 1979 the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, experienced a temporary shutdown when the reactor core overheated and almost caused a meltdown. The near disaster was well reported. Left largely unreported was the aftermath: livestock on nearby farms aborted and died prematurely, and households experienced what amounted to an epidemic of cancer, birth defects, and premature deaths.17 The aftereffects of Three Mile Island remain one of America's best kept secrets.

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows. -Martin Renner

he once punished his own foot for squashing a worm by throwing away its shoe.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

By that sin fell the angels.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

When I was a little kid, I used to get in trouble a lot for lying. Being raised religious, I believed that lying was sinful, so I felt guilty.

We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.