Quotes About Consequences

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

You should be a billionaire, Randy. Thank god you're not. Why do you say that? Oh, because then you'd be a highly intelligent man who never has to make difficult choices - who never has to exert his mind. It is a state much worse than being a moron.

Maybe that's how great warriors do it. Carelessly, not wracking their minds with the consequences.

As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Dr. Harris was now wishing that the late Doc Dubois had never opened his big fat mouth.

Hmmm.... supposing is a dangerous practice

As soon as you open the door wide enough to admit pink nerve-gas-farting dragons, you have let in all of those other possibilities as well.

Fair or not, Tavistock Prowse would forever be saddled with blame for having allowed his use of high-frequency social media tools to get the better of his higher faculties.

What was that about anyway?" Peter demanded. "You could have gotten us killed!

Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.

It is surprisingly easy—but then, really stupid decisions are always the easiest.

The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream.

The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along.

If acting irresponsibly, if behaving in a way which you know might damage others or cause hardship or pain, is what makes you "feel good," then you have not evolved very far.

Lo que descubrirás si aceptas este reto es que has pasado la mitad de tu vida inconsciente, es decir, ignorante a un nivel consciente de lo que estás eligiendo como tus pensamientos, palabras y acciones, hasta que experimentas sus consecuencias; luego, cuando experimentas sus resultados, niegas que tus pensamientos, palabras y acciones tuvieron algo que ver con ellos.

Because if you keep living like this you'll die.

All I ask is to see accurate and authentic data, analyzed from all directions—free of bias and tunnel vision—before I layer my emotions upon it. In the end, we must live with the consequences of our decisions. After all input of facts and statistical analysis, our emotions may defy reconciliation with data.

If you can't have ownership, no one's going to go out there and extract the materials, and the loser is humanity.

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price.