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Quotes About Consequences

We reap what we sow We are the makers of our own fate None else has the blame None has the praise
~ Vivekananda
Do not hate anybody because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run come back to you If you love that love will come back to you completing the circle
~ Vivekananda
lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.
~ Vivekananda
Who sows must reap," they say, "and cause must bring The sure effect; good, good; bad, bad; and none Escape the law. But whoso wears a form Must wear the chain." Too true; but far beyond Both name and form is Âtman, ever free. Know thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say — "Om Tat Sat, Om!
~ Vivekananda
We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.
~ Unknown
We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.
~ Unknown
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
~ Voltaire
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
~ Voltaire
Epictetus said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
~ W. Clement Stone
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
~ W. H. Auden
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
~ W. H. Auden
Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return
~ W. H. Auden
Sanitizing the past is every bit as morally irresponsible as whitewashing atrocities in the present.
~ Unknown
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
As usual, my first reaction to the reception of one of my overtures of philanthropy was a feeling of grace. This was always followed by a feeling of doubt. I thought through the possible courses this act of kindness could follow, and decided I did not care. I would help those I could, how I could, and damn the consequences.
~ Unknown
Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
~ W.H. Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
~ W.H. Auden
All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
~ Paris Hilton
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
~ Gloria Estefan
You don't get second chances in the real world.
~ Gail Simmons
Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.
~ Pierre Dukan
I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.
~ Rita Mae Brown