Quotes About Consequences

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Putin underlined that one of the most disastrous consequences of the collapse of the USSR was that "for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory." And it is precisely this that Putin has begun to correct.

Doing good things for wrong reasons consistently brings unfavorable results.

You're after perfection,'Matt said. 'Is that so awful?' 'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.

To his enduring sorrow, Bill Clinton chose yet another pious judge to run the Bureau.

After I've preached the last sermon I'll ever deliver, I sit in my Audi with my dad's Bible in one hand and a Glock 17 in the other, contemplating how to get away with a robbery. Soon this gun will make me money, send me to prison or kill me. My life is now that simple.

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

Steve offered to pay his victim a month's salary if she would write a statement saying he had not attacked her. She refused. But because she was engaged and worried about what her fiancé would think if she had to go through a trial with a man who would try to destroy her, she backed off. The case disappeared.

To avoid trouble, one large manufacturing company made membership in the Ku Klux Klan a qualification for employment

80% of the consequences flow from 20% of the causes

One wrong person in your circle can destroy your whole future.

One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman

He just keeps looking left to the hay, and right to the water, trying to decide. Hay or water, hay or water? He's unable to decide, so he eventually falls over and dies of both hunger and thirst. A donkey can't think of the future.

Woe unto he who "microdoses" and gets hit like a freight train while checking in luggage at an airport

so many bad ideas that lead to authoritarian consequences begin with good intentions.

Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should be another 'paired' metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.