Quotes About Consequences

We all do shit like this, stuff that's no good for you. You do it and then there's no feeling positive about it afterwards.

You didn't know we were occupyed twice in the 20th century? Don't worry, when you have kids they won't know that the US occupied Irak either.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Ich gebe nur zu bedenken, daß die meisten Dinge von Wichtigkeit, die jemals geschehen sind, mehr als nur einen Grund hatten.

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more instance in a chain of bad choices.

From small mistakes come great catastrophes;

what had happened, he said he wanted to go looking for him, make him live up to his responsibilities. But what Jeanette knew and didn't say was that Bill Reynolds was married, a married man;

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more instance in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas and, for whatever reason, made them your own.

Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitudes. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. We may have loved, but never well enough. We never truly knew ourselves. We forgot the world; now it has forgotten us. How many years will pass before jealous nature reclaims this place? Before it is as if we never existed at all?

Sorry, we made vampires, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

Even overeating — like Mom — wasn't that a rebellion that in the end only hurt us?

Max smiled, the smile of comfort, the one you give to someone who's made a big mistake and is suffering the consequences, the one that doesn't help but shows you understand.

Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.

Ser una mentirosa no es fácil. Para empezar, has de tener muy presente el hilo de todas tus mentiras. Recordar exactamente qué has dicho y a quién se los ha dicho. Porque esa primera mentira siempre te conduce a la siguiente. Nunca hay una sola mentira.

As is usually the case, those who lived at the time did not fully comprehend the enormous consequences of the events they witnessed.

Chrysostom earned the virulent hatred of many among the powerful when, at the Cathedral of St. Sophia in the imperial capital, he dared follow this understanding of the gospel to its consequences, declaring that the enormous differences between the rich and the poor and between the ruling classes and the rest of the population were incompatible with the gospel itself.

qué me ves puto», era cosa de mala suerte o de tiempo. «¿Y de qué murió?». «Lo mataron porque vio feo a alguien». «Bueno, entonces es su culpa. ¿A

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Any powerful technology can be abused.

Obviously, there's no way of making money that doesn't hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn't generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn't function if that were the case.

It slowly dawned on me that it's possible for the wise men who run your life for you to see disaster coming and not have a plan for dealing with it; because they know what needs to be done but there are vested interests in the way, or they can't figure out the politics, or they think it'll be horrendously unpopular, or it'll cost too much money,