Quotes About Consequences

The cost of war is a lifelong legacy borne by children.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

The world may admire the truth-tellers, but few will want to employ them.

Company G today committed a war crime. They are going to win the war, however, so I don't suppose it really matters.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

Just think how the world would've turned out if Hitler had gotten into art school, thought Lucien.

Your whole life is a chain of choices- your choices

Think When did it go wrong? The break-in? No, before that. The party? That was part of it, but that wasn't when it started. Zack? Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that's not it, is it? Before Zack. Before Ryan. Before Max and Derrick or that whole thing with the wallet. Before Ashley. Before tenth grade even began. And you're thinking, this can't be it.

You better not come home with your clothes smelling like marijuana." The way she said it—mary-ju-wanna—made it sound like some exotic,

If you were AWOL when your company was going back into combat you might as well keep going because your own officers would blow you away, and they didn't even have to say it was the Germans. That's desertion in the face of the enemy. While

You fat fuck," I said and jumped up and decked him. I broke his jaw, and they expelled me permanently on the spot. Naturally,

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Voltaire, Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes never had a chance to speak with these men or even know of their existence—and here, at last, we begin to appreciate the enormity of the calamity, for the distintegration of native America was a loss not just to those societies but to the human enterprise as a whole.

The gambler is a moral suicide.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Find a scapegoat is wanting to destroy the ruins. (Trouver un bouc émissaire, - C'est vouloir les ruines détruire.)

The crusaders fought war, and they won leprosy . (Les croisés firent la guerre, et ils gagnèrent la lèpre)

The peace pipe has killed the lungs (Le calumet de la paix - A tué les poumons faits.)