Quotes About Consequences

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

Do what you have to do, I guess. But sooner or later you're going to run out of mirrors to shoot at. Then what will you do?

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.

People who live with their head in the clouds deserve to hit the ground every once in a while.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Perhaps George Santayana's famous aphorism that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' should be reversed – that is, it is because we remember the past that we are condemned to repeat it. The depressing re-emergence of national hatreds in the last

How do you pinpoint the beginnings of a cyclone, or measure the fallout of a man's failings?

In other words, in an age of great shifts in education, very little has shifted when it comes to the teaching of adolescent readers. The teaching of reading remains stuck in a paradigm that doesn't work, and when students are stuck in a paradigm that doesn't work, there are dire consequences: •

Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.

Wild oats make a mighty poor breakfast.

When you scalp a man more'n once, you begin to run out of hide.

If you fall in a cactus patch, you kin expect to pick stickers.

We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us.

But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?" "No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough." "Why not?" "Well, if that was enough, if just saying no and not giving a reason was enough, where would we be? It would just be chaos.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

In the opening paragraph Goldi commits felony breaking and entering. Why does she do it? Why does she risk five to ten in the slammer or death by bear claw?

How could a choice be called free when its consequences are unknown at the time of our choosing?

Now notice Proverbs 6:2. In the margin of my Bible, that verse reads, "Thou art taken captive with the words of thy mouth." In other words, you said the wrong thing, and as a result, you were taken captive.

During the Second World War, the United States military initiated Project X-Ray, a top secret program in which bats were trained to carry and deliver explosive devices. Ultimately the project was scrapped after hundreds of bats escaped from the test range, incinerated several army buildings, and took up residence beneath a large fuel tank.

What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Inaccurate estimates are a failure of information, not of values or principles. If the numbers are wrong, fix the numbers and communicate the consequences.

Call-by-reference went out of fashion in language design a couple of decades ago because of the possibility for unintended consequences.