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Quotes About Consequences

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
~ Idries Shah
SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN: Self-justification is worse than the original offence.
~ Idries Shah
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
~ Idries Shah
You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel. (Gulistan)
~ Idries Shah
Too much kindness towards the fox may mean doom for the rabbit.
~ Idries Shah
He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.
~ Idries Shah
A stolen kiss is not easily returned.
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Profeta Quienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo
~ Idries Shah
Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por la crueldad. Ninguno de estos abordajes es correcto.
~ Idries Shah
Tres cosas Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. (Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)
~ Idries Shah
Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por medio de la crueldad. Ninguno de los abordajes es correcto.
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Sheikh Ziaudin: La autojustificación es peor que la ofensa original.
~ Idries Shah
Una mentira dejará fuera a cuarenta verdades
~ Idries Shah
Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. Ali, el León del Islam.
~ Idries Shah
Si insistes en comprar mala comida, debes estar preparado para que no te apetezca comerla.
~ Idries Shah
Se insisti a comprare cibo scadente, devi essere pronto a disgustarlo.
~ Idries Shah
Three Things Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. (Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet)
~ Idries Shah
They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
~ Ike Turner
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
~ Colin Mochrie
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
~ Colin Powell
[On invading Iraq:] You break it, you own it.
~ Colin Powell
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
~ Colin Powell
because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
~ Colin Thompson
Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert — unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on — are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.
~ Colin Ward