Quotes About Consequences

He was going to kill you," she said. "And me. Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts." "Still and all. We don't kill unless we have to." River reflected on this, then smiled brightly. "Okay! That's a good rule." "I like to think so.

My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire's intelligence chiefs.

They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.

She notes how advances in brain imaging technology prove that people's brains are wired to overestimate risk, exaggerate its consequences, and underestimate their ability to handle it. Accordingly, fear about what people don't want to happen drives their choices more often than a commitment to what they wish to see.

Beard's view, slavery and emancipation were almost incidental to the real causes and consequences of the war. The sectional conflict arose from the contending economic interests of plantation agriculture and industrializing capitalism.

He ain't dead. They say just his ear's shot off." "That don't sound like me. It ain't smart to shoot a man's ear off. A man ain't got but two.

This was not a just war after all—it was just a war: yet another exercise in consecrated barbarity and sanctified slaughter.

Iggy's spine tightened, his face like ice. When he'd been at the School, they'd tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

We all make choices. We all have to live with them.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.

Someone who shakes a tree needs to be ready for what might fall on him. - Craig Carney

Don't live a life you don't want to talk about.

The possibility of a woman pope was extraordinary, astounding, and if it happened, the consequences would be profound. Zachary

Literacy rots the brain, I'm afraid. And a rotten mind is of no use to the New Order. Sadly, there must be consequences.

You know what they say, it's better to ask for forgiveness than seek permission.

If you've screwed up, admit it and face the consequences. If you've crossed the line, admit it and face the consequences. If you've had lapses in judgment or viewed something with eyes full of prejudice, admit it and face the consequences. "Any other course of action is deception and cover-up, which only makes the consequences worse for you in the long run," my grandmother told me when I was a boy. "Deal with the mess you've made, Alex, and move on.

wounds, probably for nothing," she says, "you're also going to take a wrecking ball to a solve that just made you cop of the year and basically guaranteed you a career on the force." Billy

there was no recipe that ensured a good life, and virtue was a joke. So was Karma. Life slapped down the righteous and the spiritual just as easily as the wicked and the free. The trick was to embrace this reality wholeheartedly. In so doing the smart man, the perfect man, the free man could act without fear of consequences.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone trying to act for the greater good.

off this kid's bad side

Rafe jumped Miller!" Gabe said. The problem was, it was true. There were about three dozen witnesses.

And the driver?" Claire asked. "Drunk, and texting while driving. He just walked away.