Quotes About Consequences

A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.

Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.

On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

In today's world more harm may be done by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm.

Anyone who knows Western businesses, government agencies, or educational institutions knows that their managers make far too many small decisions as a rule. And nothing causes as much trouble in an organization as a lot of small decisions.

I've seen more institutions damaged by too much caution than by rashness, though I've seen both.

I was fine till the finger, I say to myself, as I shift to reverse. You don't flip off Gilbert Grape. Let that be known.

Austen is a moralist, but, as John Lauber has put it, she is not a punitive moralist. Sometimes her villains receive no more serious punishment than to achieve their desires. Often that is punishment enough.

If one Egyptian tailor hadn't cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, Potiphar's wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh's dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor.