Quotes About Consequences

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

A man wrote a letter to the IRS saying, "I have been unable to sleep knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I have understated my taxable income and have enclosed a check for $150. If I still can't sleep, I will send the rest.

For if 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. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it's going to come back to haunt you.

You have to think about the consequences of actions, and if they're negative, that shouldn't be your choice.

If you keep a clean heart with your money, you will have a clean karmic cycle, but the day you do something negative to another person, that karmic circle will start to bring you down.

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

If you manage Newcastle, you have to deal with the consequences.

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

There's no excuse for drink-driving.

You do things against the word of God, you have no fear. You're going to do things that are going to make shame of you and your family.

Sometimes people honestly don't realize the magnitude of their words and have no idea that boundaries have been crossed.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.