Quotes About Consequences

It's not a big deal, the way Dr. Marshall sees it. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. In the gold wash of the chapel, breathing her reasons into my ear, she asked, every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present? The

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

Por entonces yo llevaba un tiempo con un ojo morado, souvenir de una pelea a puñetazos durante las vacaciones de verano. Ninguno de mis compañeros de trabajo me había preguntado nunca por ello, asi que supuse que uno podía hacer cualquier cosa en su vida privada con tal de que te dejara tantos moretones que nadie quisiera conocer los detalles.

Here's how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it's not just biting our ass, but it's already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left.

Know what happens when you eat shit? Then you're full of shit. And you shit it back out into the world. Shit for shit for shit.

Shooting yourself in the leg is healthier than in the heart, too. Doesn't mean I would recommend doing it.

It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.

If she gets caught and punished by the God King…it'll break Ashura's heart again.

Charlotte. Kate attempted to distract the child from her endless questions and held up the glass tube. This is wulfsyl. I can't be sure it's correct. The girl looked at Kate with excitement, then asked hopefully, Will it stop me from eating someone? Kate looked uncomfortable. We believe that if you take it now, you will n ever have to eat someone. But what if I do? Eat Malcolm, Simon suggested.

Sound managerial decisions are at the very root of their impending fall from industry leadership.

It turns out that for most people who have chronic diseases with deferred consequences, improve my financial health is a much more pervasively experienced job than maintain my physical health.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

The only way to avoid the consequences of uncomfortable moral concessions in your life is to never start making them in the first place. When the first step down that path presents itself, turn around and walk the other way.

If you give in to "just this once," based on a marginal-cost analysis, you'll regret where you end up. That's the lesson I learned: it's easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time.

In America," I said, "if you can't pay back a loan, you declare bankruptcy and that's the end of it.

With creation went responsibility and he was not equipped to assume more than the moral responsibility for the wrong that he had done, and moral responsibility, unless it might be coupled with the ability to bring about some mitigation, was an entirely useless thing.

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences. With

aimed not at military concentrations, but at total populations. He

Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I'd done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

You opened their eyes to another world, darling. They'll never forgive you for that.

And whatever she suffered, he will suffer so much worse, so much worse. However loudly she cried, and begged him to stop, her murderer will cry out more loudly.

Do unto others, boy, before they do unto you.

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

You live in world, you collide with others. That's the way it is. We collide and sometimes someone gets hurt. They just wanted to steal a silly pair of boxers. It went wrong. For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much hold on to hate - you lose your grip on what's important, you know?