Quotes About Consequences

New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards.

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies.

To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.

I understand why there is a push for an automated strike zone. However, I do think there would be some unintended consequences of having it that I think need to be addressed first before we would go down that road.

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

As you make your bed you must lie in it.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.