Quotes About Consequences

Should global energy prices rise enough, then higher shipping costs will curtail or slow the globalization of production. The consequences of such a slowdown would be global and serious.

Don't shoot me, Sidney, I love you." He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said to him.

The things we do pile up on us, weigh us down. Or hold us in place, at very least.

When our characters show us the full fire of that inner battle, we have the makings of great fiction. For whether the choice is ultimately for honor or dishonor, we will see the consequences and the reader will be instructed without being taught.

he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.

The world was filled with clever killers who mistakenly believed that they'd never be caught. This was not true. Karma had everyone's address

Karma had everyone's address

Since the alternatives to war remain roads largely not taken in the United States, however, they are tricky subjects for historians. As Edward Carr notes, History is, by and large, a record of what people did, not what people failed to do. On the other hand, making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning. History is contingent on the actions of people.

In his conclusion, Zajonc maintains that he has "not encountered a single instance of massacre that was not preceded by extensive development of moral imperatives.

The announcement of the verdicts was completed on October 1, 1946. Appropriately, this date fell on Yom Kippur, the climax of the High Holy Days in Judaism. This sacred Day of Atonement is the day to face up to one's sins and their consequences. On this day, the tribunal would announce the consequences of the sins committed against humanity by the twenty-two Nazi defendants.

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In spite of his many successes, he is denigrated for his extreme polygamy, having had 700 wives and 300 concubines according to the Bible. These women drew him towards sin and idolatry and made God angry with him, and this has been attributed as one of the causes for the division of Israel after his death.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

People sometimes made mistakes when they felt overburdened. Maybe they drank too much, slept with the wrong person, yelled at loved ones.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Cuando se tiene poco seso la vanidad llega a causar toda clase de desgracias

sin querer obrar mal ni hacer infelices a los otros se puede errar y ocasionar desgracia. La carencia de reflexión o la escasa atención a los sentimientos ajenos, así como la falta de resolución, dan ese resultado.

Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops. He kills thousands of harmless insects as well, including some that actually do good, such as bees that pollinate the flowers and give us honey. Creatures that feed on insects, especially birds, also get sick and die. In the end, because the poisonous chemicals get widely distributed, humans may become sick, too.

wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.

If only we had listened to the scientists studying zootonic diseases who have long warned that such a pandemic was inevitable if we continued to disrespect nature and disrespect animals. But their warnings fell on deaf ears. We didn't listen and now we are paying a terrible price.

think that wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and