Quotes About Consequences

I'd rather live life with the consequences of my choice than live with the consequences of fear.

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

A bad system can destroy good people.

And he'd hated himself, and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."

Evil events from evil causes spring.

When we don't allow others to suffer the consequences of their actions we cripple them emotionally. We deprive them of the ability to learn from their mistakes. We also take away their ability to overcome their problems and change their life for the better.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.