Quotes About Consequences

If a man acts in such a way as to create a belief that he is dead, he must put up with the consequences.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyo but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number wh obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. —SCYLVENDI

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

It isn't a toy, you know. You don't know anything about it. You don't know what it really does to your body.

Two hours after the melon disaster, I sprawled on the floor of my room. Grounded. With nothing to do.

karma's a bitch, and so am I

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

Maybe we should go along, Shane said. Strength in numbers, man. Michael smiled at Eve and shook his head. After she bitch-slapped the Founder? Not a good idea.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.

It's the hardest lesson for someone who's been taught guns are the answer . . . that they're only the answer to a pure, simple, direct set of problems: killing someone. I

Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

He's not getting out of here again...But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me.

Killing someone isn't like in the movies, something that you shrug off with a quip and a drink. It eats at you, even when the person you kill unquestionably has to die. And there's no way that her feelings about Melvin aren't, at the very deepest level, still complicated.

take her he said Oliver is not going to be pleased, boy. Better go. I had to, Michael said. I had to stake him. He was going to kill her. In point of fact, he wasn't; he was going to hurt her so badly that Amelie would feel it, that's al. But that's not what I meant. You crashed a car into the limousine. Oliver loves his limousine. Michael opened his mouth, then closed it without thinking of anything to say to that.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants the the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.

To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to disaster, for once radioactive elements have been deposited at sea they are irretrievable. The mistakes that are made now are made for all time.

Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not 9nly scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.