Quotes About Consequences

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

There's never any knowing—how am I to put it?—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. —E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia.

Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. What he was about to do to his father was so huge, so colossal, that the consequences were inconceivable - he couldn't imagine a moment occurring after that act. Only blankness. Nothingness. Something like the end of the world. And facing the end of the world, or even just the end of the year, had always given Josh a strangely detached feeling.

False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.

To?i cei care gre?esc ?tiu din capul locului c? sunt pe cale s? fac? o gre?eal?, dar nu se pot ab?ine. Probabil c? surpriza e dat? doar de amploarea gre?elii. - RO (Trad. Ioana Petridean) Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence. - EN

Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.

Cudjo meetee de people at de gate and tells dem, "You see de rattlesnake in de woods?" Dey say, "Yeah." I say "If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him? Same way wid my boys, you unnerstand me. If you leave my boys alone, dey not bother nobody!

Not every skunk in the world rates a first-class killing. Hanging is too good for some folks. They just need their behinds kicked.

You won't git far and you won't be long, when dat big gut reach over and grab dat little one

If dat wuz mah wife, said Walter Thomas, Ah'd kill her cemetery dead.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

You have to be accountable for what you do.

The thing about this sport is you will be held accountable for your words come a certain date.

I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

No adultery is bloodless.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

Everyone in life has those critical moments in their life when they know that something they did or didn't do would affect their future.

The decisions I make with my career is not just about me. It doesn't affect just me.

Everything I did in politics affected somebody.

We are seeing how people we have looked up to and were inspired by in our work have suddenly just gone because there are such serious allegations against them. I really don't know why it is not happening here.

There's never really been a true apology for slavery.

I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.