Quotes About Consequences

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.

Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROBLEMS THAT ARE THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN BAD DECISIONS. DON'T DISPLACE THE BLAME.

Every sin (past, present, and future) we have committed

is a short step to licensed murder, especially when it is for so-called public benefit.

You must guard your mouth, because no matter what you say, you are launching weapons of one sort or another.

This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains nothing, and a past composed of accidents is as unhistorical as a past of necessary consequences.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Don't drink; it's bad for you.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good that he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: when you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return

Sting of a bee kills one person but sting of words hurt an entire nations

Oh yes, Joh—oh yes! Your sin walks behind you like a good dog on the trail. It does not lose your scent, Joh—it remains always and always at your back. A friend is unarmed against his friend. He has no shield before his breast, nor armor before his heart. A friend who believes in his friend is a defenseless man. A defenseless man was it whom you betrayed, Joh.

Royal reaction to the British publication of the book was draconian. Crawfie had to leave her grace-and-favour cottage; her entry in Who's Who was withdrawn; her name was not even mentioned in officially authorized biographies such as John Wheeler-Bennett's King George VI or Dorothy Laird's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. She retired to Aberdeen from where, with extraordinary insensitivity, she pestered the family with frequent requests.

Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open