Quotes About Consequences

Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

Some of us just accept debt as a part of adult life and trod on, shackled by consequences we don't fully understand.

if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike remind us—they can indeed become real accomplices to evil through inaction.

One persons left hand, will cost a friend their right hand.

This is how Mortimer Tate ended up killing the first three human beings he'd laid eyes on in nearly a decade.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell

For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.