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Quotes About Consequences

I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.
~ Laura Whitcomb
The law says they aren't allowed to share the info with anyone else, but of course they did—who wouldn't?—so now we're marked for life. His picture is even posted on the New Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry.
~ Laura Wiess
If not for you or your daughter, then for Nicky? Couldn't you do it for Nicky?' I stop breathing. My mother pales. 'You know what, Mom? You're right. Let me do for Nicky exactly what he did for me.' She wheels and with one savage sweep of her arm, she clears the table and sends everything crashing to the floor.
~ Laura Wiess
Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences. Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you. Eliza: Yeah? Like what? Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
I put my own feelings before what was right for you, for us. And I shouldn't have done that. Seriously, I fucked it all up.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
Ruby's heart sank. The broken clasp. Not only had she let go of the one thing that might have saved her life, but she had also neatly tipped off the Count as to her whereabouts. That's why he had retraced his steps. That's why he had found her. RULE 7: DON'T FORGET THE LITTLE THINGS - IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT WILL LEAD PEOPLE TO NOTICE THE BIG THINGS , or as Mrs Digby would no doubt say, A stitch in time saves you a whole lot of bother later on .
~ Lauren Child
If Sergeant Cooper wasn't impressed by Ruby's time-keeping, then her flouting of the camp dress code really got him marching up and down. His least favourite item was a T-shirt printed with the words: could you repeat that? I wasn't actually listening . 'Redfort, how many times have I told you about that T-shirt of yours?' 'I'm sorry Sergeant Cooper, I haven't been counting, but I can take a wild guess if it's important to you.
~ Lauren Child
This was RULE 32: TELL ONE LIE AND GET READY TO TELL A WHOLE LOT MORE.
~ Lauren Child
I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.
~ Lauren Myracle
So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing, I ended up turning my back on my dearest friend, a betrayal I never intended. Or so I told myself. That was the problem with lying to yourself. Sometimes you got too good.
~ Lauren Myracle
Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.
~ Lauren Slater
What had Dr. Latham done to deserve a beating?
~ Lauren Tarshis
Mesquita functioned as Magellan's agent of agony, deciding who was guilty of treason and who would suffer the consequences. No wonder the men hated him.
~ Laurence Bergreen
King Manuel ordered the harassment of Magellan's relatives who remained in their homeland.
~ Laurence Bergreen
punishment of Ferdinand Magellan's crime of moving to Castile.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Da Costa was explicit about the dire consequences that would befall the two
~ Laurence Bergreen
Nor would matters end there; their families and heirs would suffer
~ Laurence Bergreen
during his four voyages. And it was a mistake that would be corrected only at the cost of great suffering
~ Laurence Bergreen
Abortion too, is a form of human sacrifice (depopulation) on a huge scale, just as in the distant past babies were sacrificed to the god Moloch. Bert Hellinger warns us in the extreme about the consequences of abortion on a family and the consequences on the other living children of that family.
~ Laurence Galian
What are you protecting yourself from? Will you sell your life for fear's price?
~ Laurence Galian
Put differently: (1) Is removal permissible, (2) Is removal likely to succeed, and (3) Is removal worth the price the nation will pay?
~ Laurence H. Tribe