Quotes About Consequences

My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

We live with the scars we choose.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.