Quotes About Consequences

The Truth is a double edged sword. Can cut both ways. But if truth is allowed to die then why are we here? I for one will continue to speak the truth no matter who gets mad.

Be wise today so you don't regret the choices you didn't make and regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.

Lets see what did it cost you for destroying Your House (Capital) 1. Jail time 2. Attorney Fees. 3 Court Fees. 4. Your Freedom. The list goes on. YA should of stayed home and destroyed your own house it would of been Cheaper!! Just saying.

Never take anything you haven't earned; You always end up paying for it one way or another.

Sometimes I'll make a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible.

Alas, what short-sighted improvident creatures we are, all of us; and how often does the evening cup of joy lead to sorrow in the morning!

By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.

Yet it is clear that we cannot choose not to choose, for not choosing is a choice from which consequences flow, and the inner split between soul and world widens.

Fate is what is given to us; destiny is what we are summoned to become. In the interplay of the two, human character plays a role. Hubris, or the fantasy that we know enough to know enough, seduces us toward choices that lead to unintended consequences. Hamartia, the failure to see clearly enough, to see humbly enough, is a lens through which we imperfectly envision the world, unavoidably distorting and reductive, but convincing at the moment nonetheless.

Never put things off…you will wake up and find them gone.

It was not true that all men killed the things they loved. What was true was that all things killed the men who loved them. Which, after all, was as it should be.

Don't eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.

Beware of what you wish for in youth because you will get it in middle life.

and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

You pull on dat 'gator's tail, he gonna clean your kneecaps, him.

Die, Motherfuckers held what is called a group-conscience meeting, and Eddy was told to hit the bricks and never come back unless he wanted his head shoved up a Harley-Davidson exhaust pipe.

You put me in mind of a man who spent his last cent on Ex-Lax and forgot the pay toilet cost a dime.

What Victor Charles and the NVA couldn't do to him, or the Mob or his enemies inside NOPD, Clete had done to himself with fried food, booze, weed, whites on the half shell, and calamitous affairs with strippers, junkies, and women who seemed to glow with both rut and neurosis.

because they listened to Black Sabbath." "Why didn't he get the injection table?

When a drunk gets eighty-sixed out of a bar, he's not supposed to buy drinks for the people still inside.

The advantage of having a little knowledge about the classical world is that few other people do. The second advantage is your awareness that every problem facing us today has already occurred many times previously, and the behavior of the players is always predictable and the consequences are always the same.

What we do is punish the people who are available," she said.

I also figuredd out that what we call our destiny is usually determined by two or three casual decision which on the surface seem about as important as spitting your gum through a sewer grate.

I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize they're headed for the drunk tank with little to look forward to in the morning except the appearance of their names in the newspaper. Or maybe in truth I just don't like to see myself when I look into their faces.