Quotes About Consequences

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Guys; every time you mistreat a woman, you give up the right to be treated like a man.

Someday, you're gonna wind up all alone, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

Wishing you can sometimes punch someone in the face with no consequences.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

She should have died on that day. Perhaps, in a way, she had.

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

I should have known he'd be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn't have known he'd be the death of me.

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.