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Quotes About Consequences

On 'Grey's,' if you have a bad day as a doctor, you lose a patient. But what's crazy about 'Station 19' is if you have a bad day as a firefighter, the patient dies, or you die, or your partner dies. It's a whole other level of stakes.
~ Jason Winston George
Moving on' is a concept invented by Housewives. Housewives who behave so appallingly all they can do is say they are moving on, preferably in a place where everyone can hear them. To stay put and acknowledge that their actions have consequences and to accept responsibility is simply too painful for this particular brand of narcissist.
~ Carole Radziwill
I try not to think about where I would be now if I had stayed in Wolverhampton. Jail. That's the way I would have seen it. It was just part and parcel of where I grew up and the lifestyle I was in.
~ Andre Gray
The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.
~ Michael Waltrip
I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.
~ Mick Mulvaney
We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.
~ Julian Robertson
If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught.
~ Mobutu Sese Seko
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
~ Basmah bint Saud
So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.
~ Method Man
I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.
~ Sara Shepard
I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?
~ Jose Altuve
I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don't mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I mean stealing on the regular. It got really bad. It was one hundred percent an addiction.
~ Gigi Gorgeous
I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.
~ Matthew Perry
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
~ Willie Davis
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
~ Henry Knox
Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.
~ Michel Temer
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?
~ Maria Callas
Michael Bisping, in one of his last fights, he stepped out there too soon. He had a brutal fight with Georges St-Pierre and then real quick jumped in against Kelvin Gastelum and just got put away. If you do that, if you step out there too soon... this is your livelihood.
~ Stephen Thompson
In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership, it is Labour's duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it.
~ Keir Starmer
In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe not. But there are steps we can take to limit the social harm caused by this industry, just like we do with others.
~ Steve Hilton
How long shall thy Madness outbrave our justice?
~ Thomas E. Ricks
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
~ Thomas E. Ricks
He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.
~ Thomas F. Monteleone
We have had a close shave, I can tell you. If the French had landed in force, if the peasants throughout the country had rallied to them. The Irish must be taught a lesson. London will expect that. We are schoolmasters as well, you see. Scullery maids and hangmen and schoolmasters. The lessons taught by armies are hard ones.
~ Thomas Flanagan