Quotes About Consequences

This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots.… fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt."?Distancing, Kantor (p.115)

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo

being together… it will never be right. Thought it sure as hell feels like it could. We'd result to train wrecks. We'd cause whirlwinds. We'd start wildfires.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

The great tragedy of the drive to centralization, as of the drive to extend the scope of government in general, is that it is mostly led by men of goodwill who will be the first to rue its consequences

Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so?

Where does violence go, if not directly back into our blood and bones?

Això d'animar les altres a mentir en benefici nostre ha de ser un pecat més greu que el de mentir nosaltres mateixes.

What's wrong with sleeping with a lawyer? I asked.

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.

The wrongs we do open doors to do right.

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices. -Blue Man

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

Kita mengira kebencian adalah senjata untuk melawan orang yang melukai kita, tapi kebencian adalah pisau melengkung. Dan kerusakan yang kita lakukan pada orang lain, kita lakukan pula pada diri sendiri.

the same things in life can be good or evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them. Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal or kill. Even nature can work for you or against you: fire can warm or burn; water can sustain life or flood it away.

The Reb once did a sermon on how the same things in life can be good or evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them. Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal or kill. Even nature can work against you: fire can warm or burn, water can sustain life or flood it away.

But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

We don't realize who else we punish while we're punishing ourselves.