Quotes About Consequences

What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow.

If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.

Most people don't know they secretly go after that which will punish them somehow — not in every area of their life, but always in some way.

Brez poznavanja svoje duše, reinkarnacije in karme osebnost ne more vedno razumeti pomena ali smisla dogodkov svojega življenja ali razumeti posledic svojega odzivanja nanje.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

A person (or an animal) who feels there are no alternatives will fight even when violence isn't justified, even when the consequences are perceived as unfavorable, and even when the ability to prevail is low.

The conscious or unconscious decision to use violence, or to do most anything, involves many mental and emotional processes, but they usually boil down to how a person perceives four fairly simple issues: justification, alternatives, consequences, and ability.

Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level, and it causes a constant low-grade anxiety.

These are the multiple shadows because there were a lot of things she walked away from without a word of explanation when she was younger & she still thinks about them more than she needs to.

They couldn't reach the cord to make it stop & so it flew about scaring the older ladies just out of church. It left behind a trail of wet feathers & a renewed sense of the presence of evil among the faithful. Once they found out who started it, everyone settled down & went back to hating the usual stuff.

Everything that has happened took place because you arrived. If you had not come here, the warrior might still be alive and the horse might not have been sick. A man has been killed, and a horse healed, for your benefit.

First we guess it. Then we – now don't laugh, that's really true – then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what, if this is right, if this law that we guessed is right, to see what it would imply. And then we compare the computation results to nature, or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

Enkidu never should've killed the guardian of the forest. He should've joined him. That's what too much civilizing does to you.

Our thoughts and actions have consequences, all the more reason to be loving and compassionate and not fearful or harmful. They create our destiny and our future.

Cuando somos impacientes, provocamos sufrimiento en nosotros mismos y en los demás. Nos precipitamos y juzgamos con imprudencia, actuamos sin tener en consideración las consecuencias de lo que hacemos. Nuestras elecciones son forzadas y, a menudo, incorrectas; y el precio que pagamos por ellas, elevado.

Reality poisons the spring of fantasy, whereas fantasy, when it erupts into the real world, brings destruction in its wake.

Power of responsibility was nil at these times. There was fear afterwards, with a massive and suppressed remorse.

I looked at a photo of Martyn Duffey today and it shocked me seeing him so lifelike in that photo and dead, gone, destroyed by me, I can't stop thinking about it.

I want to know what the hell made you think this was your job to do? Who made YOU the moral compass of us? How could you lay down with the people you've laid down with?? Tell me, 'Director Stark', was it worth it?? Was it WORTH it?! TELL ME!

There's no such thing as free kittens.

19In their ungodly disrespect for God they bring destruction on their own lives.

It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in the desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill.

On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free—free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But

Violence was regarded as an acceptable solution to many problems which would never have originated had violence not been in the air in the first place.