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Quotes About Consequences

Life's real name is Choices.
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
~ English proverb
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.
~ Bill Copeland, unverified
Bad excuses are worse than none.
~ Proverb
If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.
~ Saying
Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.
~ Author Unknown
If you put out the fire, you won't have to jump out the window!
~ Andy Freidricks
If you kill one fly, ten more will come to its funeral.
~ Proverb
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.
~ Frederick Douglass, 1883
History is to the effect that man's sins always find him out; but men continue to bet that they won't.
~ E. W. Howe
History is not a series of causeless consequences. Event follows event in time, as minute follows minute in the day.
~ George William Curtis, 1856
Perhaps we are yet too near the great events of which this act formed so conspicuous a part, to understand its deep significance and to foresee its far-off consequences. The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves, especially when they read it by the fierce and dusky light of war, or amid the deeper shadows of those sorrows which war brings to both.
~ James A. Garfield, 1878
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
~ Austin O'Malley
...and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work... Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse has changed; or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
~ Jonathan Swift, 1710
herkes suçlu olunca kimse cezaland?r?lamazd?.
~ Jack London
Suç hakikaten de hastal???n ta kendisi. Suçlu, yani haks?z davranan kiÅŸi, hastad?r ve bu yüzden gerektiÄŸince tedavi edilmelidir ki hastal???ndan kurtulabilsin.
~ Jack London
If you are careless enough to be killed," said Kelle, "you put us to enormous inconvenience.
~ Jack Vance
Q: So then they desist? A: Usually. Q: And if not? A: I pitch them into the sea.
~ Jack Vance
Y, claro, todo esto nos lleva a la pregunta de qué es exactamente la alineación. La respuesta es misión, comportamientos y consecuencias.
~ Jack Welch
After you, it's all cheap tequila.
~ Jacqueline Carey
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.
~ Jacqueline Carey
there is no saying how events in one place may affect what happens elsewhere, for the tapestry of history is woven of many threads.
~ Jacqueline Carey
There were two loud-mouthed idiots, James and Phil, who chatted her up the first day. Jodie had flirted back automatically. Then they waylaid her after school, wanting her to go off into the woods with them.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Dad said I'd go to hell.
~ Jacqueline Wilson