Quotes About Consequences

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.

A lifetime of hurt in one act of vengeance.

How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

What a man sows that shall he and his relations reap.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

Our karma will ultimately decide where we are tomorrow, and it all depends on what we do today.

It's hard to learn from your mistakes without consequences.

Don't try to fu.. up my life just cause yours sucks. K thanks.