Quotes About Consequences

HE HAD SIGNED her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was one. He had known for six weeks now. Little things had told him. One day he came home and there was a cigar-butt in an ashtray, still moist at one end, still warm at the other.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one's own secret sins didn't matter. The cancer spread.

If I'm still conscious to face the consequences of my actions, then at the very least I will know that my actions were real, thay they indeed had consequences, though my lone life will amount to less than a single click of static in the symphony of the big bang. If my actions were real, then so were my memories, and if those were real, the things I've done have allowed me to see God and I0m not afraid of following my life down that eight-second black rabbit hole.

I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe....

a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Because the decisions you make today determine the story you'll tell tomorrow.

Your choices create the course and contours of your life. Your decisions determine your destiny.

A lie believed as truth will affect you as if it were true.

Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.

It's the small choices no one sees that result in the big impact everyone wants.

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

One more time, because this point is crucial: a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.

I thought about the damage we all did in life simply by being ourselves and getting up in the morning.

I guess we are back to you. Know your rights?" "Yes, but it is the wrongs that keep getting me into trouble, Officer.

That's how it worked, though. Motive and opportunity rode along like two out of four apocalyptic equestrians, grinning with their bony death heads at us lesser humans as we fumbled along, refusing to believe the obvious.

revenge doesn't ever fit when there aren't any bad guys.

Kindness to a killer builds coffins.

He was a drunkard.

That's the problem with guilt, it's a two-way street; our children have to live with the things we do, and sometimes we have to live with their actions.

Besides," Bull said as he turned the wheel and powered the boat down, "I'll get your Aunt Georgia to start praying about your case. And after that happens, I wouldn't want to be in J-Fox Sherman's shoes for all the tea in China." Up

Jasper Jones fell out of this world and nobody noticed...And they'll notice now because something has been burned. Now they'll look for Jasper Jones.

Remember! What goes around comes around three times harder than before. Karma is a bitch and one day it will come for you."