Quotes About Consequences

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

As a kid, I really, truly believed that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, something really bad was going to happen.

I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.

I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust me.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Stealing is stealing. I would hope that a federal employee that engages in theft of trusting travelers would be disciplined more than with just a letter.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal