Quotes About Consequences

The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.

Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

The economic importance of maintaining strong trade relations with our two closest neighbors cannot be overstated. Any decision negatively affecting the free flow of trade from Missouri to Canada and Mexico would have undesirable economic consequences. Thousands of jobs and billions of dollars are at stake.

People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more.

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

Stalking is a serious crime with serious consequences.

When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

People realized that I'm willing to stand up for things that I believe in, despite the political consequences and overwhelming pressure.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you've set a new standard, and it's lower.

Sometimes you pay a price for standing up.

No one should feel comfortable venting racist abuse, whether from the stands or through media outlets. Just as fans must call out any fans they see hurling abuse, journalists must call out colleagues who perpetuate divisive rhetoric. Name and shame them.

Right away I'm associated with what Donald Trump stands for and all that because I introduced him. I never signed up for that, I never wanted that. That doesn't mean I support 100 percent of the things he says.

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.