Quotes About Consequences

Life is a neverending series of judgment calls.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of exact science are mathematics and logic: the mathematical sect puts out the logical eye, the logical sect puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it sees better with one eye than with two. The consequences are ludicrous.

Human beings can easily destroy every elephant on earth, but we are helpless against the mosquito.

Every man who departs from nature is courting trouble.

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.

The better a pie tastes, the worse it is for you.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

What we call real estate — the solid ground to build a house on — is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. A man will commit almost any wrong — he will heap up an immense pile of wickedness, as hard as granite, and which will weigh as heavily upon his soul, to eternal ages — only to build a great, gloomy, dark-chambered mansion, for himself to die in, and for his posterity to be miserable in.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

He that plants thorns shall not gather roses.

Carelessness doesn't bounce — it shatters.

Recklessness is a species of crime...

It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

The tickets might be returned perhaps, but where would she go?

I regret to report I let my barely legal self down.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time.

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.

The effects could be sufficiently severe to threaten the fabric of civilisation.