Quotes About Consequences

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

You've got to be really careful about what you say and do anywhere you are. I actually had a dream about being in parking garage and having somebody in front of me taking too long to get their change and honking the horn and then yelling back, and getting out and yelling at each other and then seeing it on YouTube the next day.

The second a political consultant tries to play dirty tricks, it will backfire, and it will hurt that candidate.

The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.

One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.

Should President Clinton have killed Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity in 1990s? Should President Bush have sent the U.S. military into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein in 2003? Should President Obama have withdrawn all troops from Iraq in 2011? Such questions provide no real insight into future considerations.

Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

It takes two to get one in trouble.

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Buying into the hype can get you into a lot of trouble, believing your own press.

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

To be honest, most of my troubles - bankruptcy, drinking, gambling - were self-inflicted.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.