Quotes About Consequences

Really, now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

I find others, those who prey on the innocent and do not play by the rules, and I make them go away in small, carefully wrapped pieces.

No, you don't understand. She told me to get you back. She's made up her mind and I don't dare disobey. She hits very hard.

Curiosity, as the saying goes, killed the cat. And it has frequently proved lethal to nonfelines as well. And

The real question at this point, and it was an awkward one, was how to tell Deborah that all this was happening because somebody had seen me in flagrante delicto.

life was just full of surprises lately, and they all boiled down to one thing: People really deserve whatever happens to them, don't they?

Would he paddle away any faster if he knew that there was no iron-barred room, no handcuffs, and no arrest churning happily along in his wake? That the only justice for him will be the final kind, from the High Court of Pain, and his rights are limited to only one: He has the right to shuffle off his mortal coil and spin away into the Dark Forever, and there is no appeal, no parole, and no way out at all.

But from the way she was looking at me now, I began to think that perhaps that had been a mistake. Human relationships, especially the whole Being Married Thing, were foreign territory for me. It was clear I should have called to say I would be late—but could the consequences really be this calamitous? Was

A school yard full of unruly school children in which children don't always understand the consequences of what they do. -US Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, on international relations

Saw groups of men, some huddled in intense conversation, others waving big cigars, broad-chested men with loud voices, proclaiming their opinions with the mindless flourish of those who share no responsibility for the consequences of their grand ideas.

And right now, we are not prepared for anything. That could have deadly consequences in this world.

I cannot make my kids obey. But I can control my responses to their disobedience—that is, I can respect their choices and provide wise consequences for their actions, so they can learn just as much about wisdom from disobeying as from obeying. And I can respond in ways that create an environment in which their poor choices are their problem.

coffin nails. Once Stan had left for

politicians should think a lot more carefully before they commit the next generation to war.

But then it was Thomas More who reminded us that when you don these robes you must be willing to make decisions that will rarely please all men. And indeed, my lords, on three such occasions in the past, the Lord Chancellor, having delivered his judgment, was later that day beheaded.' The

Your life becomes painful only when you are no longer able to avoid the serious negative consequences that result from your Entitlement—for example, when you actually lose your job because you cannot complete the work properly, or when your spouse threatens to leave you. Only then will you acknowledge that other people are not happy with your behavior and that your entitlement is a problem. You finally realize that the lifetrap has a cost—that it can really damage your life.

What's the reason for studying history? To understand the present or avoid it?

We were reckless with the implications

M]aterialism clearly poses a bit of a problem for a central tenet of the justice system - namely, that people exert free will in their actions, including their criminal actions. If actions are merely the inevitable consequences of hard-wired brain circuitry - or, pushing the chain of causation back a step, of the genes we inherit from our parents - then the concept of genuine moral culpability becomes untenable.

lying produces few to no severe sanctions, lying increases in frequency.

lying is then common, it becomes normative, in the sense that norms describe common behavioral patterns. Because lying becomes normative, it isn't sanctioned

The internet is just one big venue for anyone to say anything to anybody—without personal consequences.

No se puede vivir sin arrepentimientos. Algunas veces tienes que elegir cuáles te acompañarán en tu vida.

If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...