Quotes About Consequences

Fear will ruin the future quicker than anything.

We live and we die by the choices we make.

Agnes shook a finger at her. "Stop your caterwauling. I didn't poison you. I just used five bars of Ex-Lax in a pan of fudge. And I mixed Miralax with the milk so I wouldn't have to put in that pinch of salt. It was guaranteed to start working in one hour or less. Didn't miss it by much, did it? If you die tomorrow morning, we can bury you in a shoebox, Violet Prescott, because you won't be full of shit no more.

If you sisters let Nancy Drew go to France, you will suffer and she will tool

You poked the hornet's nest," I said flatly. "Guess so." "And how did that work out for you?" Ben asked. "Found the hornets," he answered, grinning sleepily.

No, it an't a good way to live. It's a good way to die, in fact.

If you want freedom, somebody's got to fuck a rat.

By itself, partyism is not the most serious threat to democratic self-government. But if it decreases government's ability to solve serious problems, then it has concrete and potentially catastrophic consequences for people's lives. I

The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

She didn't want to see the blow coming, but refused to take the coward's way. She raised her lashes, meeting his gaze with a steady one of her own, even though her knees threatened to buckle from fear. "You've made me very angry, Miss Constance," he said. "No one disrespects the name Lachlan. Not without paying a price." And then he did something she had not anticipated. He kissed her.

There aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

They aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

People don't know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn't. Hurtful things are roots,they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It's never one mistake, it's never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tying itself up in knots.

Don't worry, nothing speaks louder than a lifetime of regret and self-loathing.

Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.

you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

Why don't you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.

There aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.

Isn't it better to arrest and prosecute a hundred innocent people and catch among them one spy than to let the spy go free?

Better that ten innocent people should suffer," he said, "than one spy get away.

And too intense a longing, everyone knows, can lead to poor decisions, rash actions, hopes that become outsized and in turn deform reality

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't. The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.