Quotes About Consequences

la actuación de la generación pasada es el germen que puede y debe dar un fruto bueno o malo en un tiempo muy distante; que, junto con la semilla de la cosecha meramente temporal -coveniencia, según los mortales-, se siembran de forma inevitable las simientes de una cosecha más perdurable, que puede ensombrecer su posteridad.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

By doing their best to destroy the Native people who had welcomed and sustained their forefathers, New Englanders had destroyed their forefathers' way of life.

Tronstad knew that if he refused to dispatch Haukelid to take care of the ferry, the Allies would bomb Vemork again before the shipment left the plant or while the train or ferry were in motion. Many more innocent civilians would die in these scenarios.

Ako se neko u vasem drustvu ubije pistoljem clanovi njegove porodice gube pravo na osiguranje. Ako on to ucini cigaretama ne gube pravo. Ako vam lekar pomogne u samoubistvu, to se naziva ubistvom, a ako vam to ucini duvanska kompanija, to se naziva trgovinom.

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.

The end doesn't always justify the means. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake. And I do not make mistakes.

Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun. ...He's the Akron AWOL?!

if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows? They do it all the time, says Hayden. That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you. You already hit him with a car.

To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.

People can be monsters. Whether it's just their actions, or whether it's who they really are, it doesn't matter. The result is the same.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.

of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do it sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

Have I not expressed sufficient remorse?' 'You have. But there are still consequences. Even for necessary things.' 'I broke none of my laws...' 'No, but you broke mine. [...] Therefore, I can no longer speak to you. You are... Unsavory to me.

When your parents turn you in to the Juvenile Authority - and they will - I will not shed a single tear for you, Connor Lassiter.

If every parent unwound a kid due to disrespect, the human race would go extinct in a single generation

Are you calling me stupid?says Emby. I think I just did. Hayden laughs. Hey, the Mouth Breather's right-unwinding does help people. If it wasn't for unwinding, there would be bald guys again-and wouldn't that be horrible?