Quotes About Consequences

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. I

The first: No good deed goes unpunished. (A phrase, ironically, that was coined by a woman, Clare Boothe Luce.) The

Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being angry at him.

Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction—so one side wouldn't have all the power.

I think we opened a Pandora's box, took out a can of worms, and threw it at a hornet's nest." "You can say that again." But I didn't. I said, "We've been cut loose." I thought a moment, then added, "But I think we can go it alone." "I guess we have no choice. But I still want to know about West Point.

I checked my speed, but I was only doing ten mph over the limit, which in Georgia means you're obstructing the flow of traffic.

Well, aside from money, you have what I call dick crimes. Dicks get you in trouble.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

I want to drink hard liquor, as you call it, before lunch. I've got a mouth like the bottom of the parrot's cage. You wouldn't want me to throw a screaming fit in front of all your officers.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

technology has enormously empowered networks of all kinds relative to traditional hierarchical power structures Ã¢â'¬â€œ but that the consequences of that change will be determined by the structures, emergent properties and interactions of these networks.

The rationale for the FDA's rigid standards is to avoid the sale of a drug like thalidomide. But the unintended consequence is almost certainly to allow many more people to die prematurely than would have died from side-effects under a less restrictive regime. We count and recount the costs of such side-effects. We do not count the costs of not allowing new drugs to be made available.

The majority of books about World War I represent its causes as diplomatic, its course as military and its consequences as economic.

Suddenly the people running Savings and Loans had nothing to lose - a clear case of what economists call moral hazard.

If our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people,' he had reminded his Cabinet colleagues in 1878, 'the British Empire would not have been made.

Niall Ferguson

The Qing Empire was about to feel the full force of history's most successful narco-state: the British Empire.

We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

Para entender el declive económico de Argentina hace falta, una vez más, ser conscientes de que la inflación es un fenómeno político tanto como monetario.

The wildest friend, the one you once saw walk up to a boy of about five or six who'd been left alone for a minute and say, "Did you know your mom's fucking hot?" that one, that friend. He's always the one who falls the hardest. He's always the one who disappears the most completely when he finds a woman that will put up with him.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.