Quotes About Consequences

I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.

Remember, the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever.

He had no one but himself to blame, for he'd opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn't really want to anyway. That's what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

Excuses are merely the cherry topping of an E.coli-infested sundae.

I remind myself that I'm no longer a damsel in distress. I can think this through. What I can't do? Base my decision on fear. Because, while I might be free to make my choice right now, I'll never be free from the consequences of that choice

She liked to steal - so what. She could kill without blinking - again, so what. It wasn't like she worked for the IRS or anything" - Bianka

If words are the power of life and death, you just pointed a loaded gun at your head.

Evil isn't born, it's made. One thought and action at a time." I paused for effect. "Take a good look at what you've made.

I'll hate myself later." "I hate myself now.

Face it. If I back out now, fear wins and everyone loses.

I'm sorry," she said softly. "Even if you'd looked like you were born downwind of an outhouse, I would have snapped a thousand photos of you. And then used those photos to blackmail you later, but my reasons are inconsequential.

How do you feel about stealing cars?

A tooth lay next to the far wall—it probably belonged to the guy who'd thought this would be fun. Ha! I had endured several fists to my stomach and now had a cut lip, and a bruised thigh. One of the men had actually pulled my hair and scratched my cheek, like a sissy girl who hadn't gotten her way. What a pussy.

He nodded again. "We didn't know Lexis was pregnant when we both volunteered for some…experiments to enhance our DNA. Unfortunately, those experiments affected Sunny more than me and Lexis.

Also, I don't want her suspended after only two days just because she did the entire school a favor and fed you your own teeth.

But our present will always be the sum total of decisions made in our past.

history has shown that the removal of all restraints of reason and morality leads not to liberation but to fascism.

technical debt' that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn't pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.

Left unchecked, technical debt will ensure that the only work that gets done is unplanned work!

Remember, outcomes are what matter—not the process, not controls, or, for that matter, what work you complete.

However, interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater than in manufacturing. For instance, an engineer assigned to multiple projects must switch between tasks, incurring all the costs of having to re-establish context, as well as cognitive rules and goals.

Screwups like the san failure made us miss a Phoenix deliverable, and now we're paying for it.