Quotes About Consequences

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs.

He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.

I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore

break the rules pay the price

Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

Rotten apples stay spoiled, Nedwin said. Copernum and his allies will hang themselves with future crimes.

The bear would have to be stopped," Grandma agreed. "Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn't blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.

If you go where you do not belong, you could open the door to vicious retribution from powerful enemies.

Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

Would you forgive a killer for not knowing how a gun functioned? How many would have to die before you stopped pardoning his ignorance?

Unless the punishments are enforced, rules lose all their power.

When conflict is inescapable and it has been learned that making a wrong decision can have severe emotionally or physically painful consequences, then we have the makings of stress, anxiety, and aggression.

She had never dreamed that in fulfilling her love for Tyrell she would so hurt her parents. She had never seen Papa so anguished before.

We are more than pawns, Kate. We are free to make our own choices. Kings and bishops shall not forever determine the fate of free men. (Frith) You're fleeing the wrath of a bishop, aren't you, and the king's soldiers? How can you be anything but a pawn in a dangerous game? (Kate) My choice, Kate. My choice not to play by the bishop's rules. A man whose spirit is free will never be a pawn in somebody else's game no matter what the consequences of his choice. (John) (p. 121)

There is no time for the innocent.

if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of this table we are going to set the maître d' on fire.

Moral of the story?

Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.

I want to fuck you again, I tell her, but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly, taking her mouth off my limp shrunken dick, glaring at me, If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

I so wish people had seen it your way, but I think too many of us have read the story to say it gives European white males carte blanche to play God over creation; so `having dominion' gives them a license to pollute and exploit.

Even victories take their toll on a man.

the most dangerous enemy is not the man with the most weapons, but the man with the least to lose.