Quotes About Consequences

Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. " — Chief Seattle Suqwamish and Duwamish T

Killing me loudly with your gun is not a good idea by any standard.

Worthless people blame their karma.

The good fighter, the hero, the man who wins the most precious of all treasures, fame, is the man who never gives up, and who does not worry about the possible consequences of bravery

PLATO A CAUTIONARY TALE He lost his gold, And he, finding the first man's gold, Lost his belt, And then he who lost his gold Found the other man's belt And hanged himself.

There isn't any such thing as something free out there. It either gets passed along as increased prices or it gets passed along by people being put out of work so the business can continue to compete.

No device of man can remove the tragedy from war, yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.

The rumors, not the truth, were enough to destroy a girl's reputation.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

El mentiroso experimentado sabe que la clave del éxito está en fingir bien la ignorancia de ciertas cosas. Por ejemplo, de las consecuencias de lo que está diciendo. Es como hacer que sean los otros los que inventen.

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

We collectively create results that nobody wants because decision-makers are increasingly disconnected from the people affected by their decisions. As a consequence, we are hitting the limits to leadership—that is, the limits to traditional top-down leadership that works through the mechanisms of institutional silos.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.

Her attitude toward me was above all one of admiration, and that was not good for me.

This argument illustrates the way in which archetypes appear in practical experience: They are, at the same time, both images and emotions. One can speak of an archetype only when these two aspects are simultaneous. When there is merely the image, then there is simply a word-picture of little consequence. But by being charged with emotion, the image gains numinosity (or psychic energy); it becomes dynamic, and consequences of some kind must flow from it.

I'm here to pay my respects to the Kleinsasser family," Cassie said after a beat. "It's over, John Wayne. I know everything." His face twitched. The color drained out of it. "What in the hell are you talking about?" he asked. "I know about your mine," she said. "I know how you framed Blake. I know enough to put you into Deer Lodge prison for a very long time.