Quotes About Consequences

Solo sé que un buen líder es aquel que no tiene miedo a las consecuencias de sus decisiones, y que toma el paso que le dicta su intuición, pase lo que pase.

that coronation of the team's achievements paradoxically heralded the beginning of the end for Rijkaard's Barcelona, as the first signs of indiscipline became apparent.

Guillermo Arriaga

Morirse en Narcolandia representaba un one way ticket a la Dimensión Desconocida.

Do we not all do monstrous things to prevent the ultimate monstrous act? I like to visualize the world as a china plate held aloft by two sticks, one the US, the other the USSR. If one stick rises, so must the other, or else the plate goes smash.

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

It is fair to say that in our quest for modernity we have demonstrated considerable ignorance concerning the impact of our inventions.

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

It never occurred to her that if the drainpipes of a house are clogged, the rain may collect in pools on the roof; and she suspected no danger until suddenly she discovered a crack in the wall.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

Amazing, when you thought about it: how quickly-made decisions became the life you lived.

You should have killed me by the river

He had a vivid sense of roads forking, rivers branching, one of those moments where the life that follows cannot be as it might otherwise have been.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

We aren't heroes if we lead men into battles we will lose.

How can we ever presume to know what will come of our choices, our paths, the lives we lead?

Life let you have what you wanted. But life was like a storekeeper who put up a sign saying "Buy now, pay later," and tempted you into buying so much that you were in debt for years

She had thought freedom meant simply the chance to have her own way, with no need to take the consequences of having had it. Well, she knew better now. Life was not a lot of golden adventures that cost you nothing.

that no kindly providence was going to save you from the results of what you did, and that you had better be sure of your own strength because you could never be sure of anybody else's.

He ran like a mad thing into the night And the words in his mouth were stinking. By the time he had hurt his first white man He was no longer thinking. By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead. His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse.

Hateful things sometimes befall the hateful but the hateful are not rendered lovable thereby.

She was walking through the streets at midnight because she had a man to meet, she was carrying a gun because she was going to kill him, and she was wearing high heels because she hadn't thought it through.

A veces la culpa quiere que aquel a quien se castiga decida su propia condena. Y no es infrecuente que el amor herido quiera ser herido de más.