Quotes About Consequences

Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor always completely understandable.

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together.

Did the world always mete out just deserts?

Beyond Sicily came Greece. He definitely wanted to see Greece. He wanted to see Greece as Dickie Greenleaf with Dickie's money, Dickie's clothes, Dickie's way of behaving with strangers. But would it happen that he couldn't see Greece as Dickie Greenleaf? Would one thing after another come up to thwart him—murder, suspicion, people? He hadn't wanted to murder, it had been a necessity.

They'd had their minds snatched, their souls snared, their peckers hung with golden chains attached to the women in their lives.

Fancy going out into the world under the impression that you can always have your own way! Would anything be more likely to lead to disaster?

the best thing that can happen to anyone who is doing wrong is to be found out. If he is not found out he will do more wrong and earn a heavier punishment.

What you do to your enemies today, you will do to your friends tomorrow.

What was once a careless complaint among friends can now get you fired.

If I send this letter, it will relieve my feelings, but it will make Meade try to justify himself. It will make him condemn me. It will arouse hard feelings, impair all his further usefulness as a commander, and perhaps force him to resign from the army.

The American Quaker theologian Elton Trueblood, some years ago, quoted Kirsopp Lake's definition: "Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences." Then he adds: "Faith, as the plain man knows, is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations

if we think we are facing an irresistible cosmic force of evil, it will invariably lead to giving in and giving up—usually with very little resistance. If you can convince yourself that you are helpless, you can then stop struggling and just "let it happen." That will seem a great relief—for a while. You can once more be a normal human being. But then you will have to deal with the consequences. And for normal human beings those are very severe.

We do have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse we only hurt ourselves.

Can anyone now seriously believe that if people are only permitted or enabled to do what they want, they will then be happy or more disposed to do what is right?

No good deed goes unpunished.

Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions. -William Pickering

It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.

Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.

Every epic collapse, the provost believed, could be traced back to a single moment—a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscreet glance.

Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

Science makes an error," he said, the gentle laughter fading from his voice, "in cutting itself off from nature. In thinking of itself as separate. I feel a chill inside my heart when I imagine where such an error might lead.

Your world moves so fast that if you stop even for an instant to consider the implications of your actions, someone more efficient will whip past you in a blur.

I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.