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Quotes About Consequences

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
~ Charles Dickens
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
~ James Thurber
We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.
~ Euripides
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
~ Richard A. Clarke
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.
~ Steve Jobs
If computers take over, it will serve us right.
~ Alistair Cooke
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
~ Thomas Huxley
Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.
~ Keith Rabois
When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.
~ Gary Hopkins
Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences.
~ J.V. Hart
It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.
~ Robert Scheer
My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
~ T-Pain
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.
~ Dreezy
Get a grip, Dad. I'm not going to do anything you wouldn't do at my age.' He stands up and says, 'That's it. You're canceling this date.
~ Simone Elkeles
Cheaters never prosper. (Because they suck.)
~ Greg Behrendt
Woe and death to all who resist my will!
~ Wilhelm II
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
~ Albert Camus
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.
~ James Hetfield
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
~ Coretta Scott King