Quotes About Consequences

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

Probably the greatest intellectual accomplishment in adolescence is the ability to think hypothetically, to engage in "if/ then" thinking. "If I blow off my math test, then I may fail the course and have to go to summer school." All of a sudden, blowing off the math test is about a whole set of consequences.

When we protect our children from excessive control, outsized competition, and persistent academic pressure, and choose instead to commit to nurturing them with warmth, clear limits, firm consequences, and a delight in their potential and uniqueness, then our children are free to return to their essential task—the development of a sense of self, sufficiently robust to weather the inevitable ups and downs of a lifetime.

It is funny," she said, "that even after all this time, you still believe you should be rewarded, just because you have been obedient. I thought you would have learned that lesson in our father's halls. None shrank and simpered as you did, and yet great Helios stepped on you all the faster, because you were already crouched at his feet.

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring down fire on your head.

Too late, I thought. Too late for all the things I should have known. I had made so many mistakes that I could not find my way back through their tangle to the first one.

If every soldier killed only those who'd personally offended him Peleides, we'd have no wars at all.

Good. I wanted him angry. He would make mistakes that way.

They take what they want, and in return they give you only your own shackles.

You cannot make that promise, I wanted to shout. You know nothing. But whose fault was that? I had kept the face of the world veiled from him. I had painted his history in bright, bold colors, and he had fallen in love with my art. And now it was too late to go back and change it. If I was so old, I should be wise. I should know better than to howl when the bird was already flown.

You have been tame your whole life, and now you will be sorry. Yes Father, yes Father—see what it gets you.

If they break through the wall, they will burn the ships—our only way of getting home, the only thing that makes us an army instead of refugees.

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring down fire on your head. I said nothing, and let her dance.

You chose her," he says. "Over me." "Over your pride." "My life is my reputation. It is all I have. I will not live much longer. Memory is all I can hope for. You know this. And you would let Agamemnon destroy it? Would you help him take it from me?

The ones that swear off, most of them they go back onto it sooner or later, get pig drunk and locked up." "Something special you've got against drunks, Sheriff?" "Married to one for a long time. Too long. She finally drove into a tree one night.

What you feel good after one time, you feel rotten after the next. And it is difficult to know in advance. And morality shouldn't be experimental, I don't think.

But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans, The carefull Devil is still at hand with means. - Ama yanl? Tabiat?m?z günaha meylettiÄŸi zaman Gerekli araçlarla ç?kagelir uyan?k Åžeytan.

You cannot force people to walk with God. You cannot force them to repent. All you can do is live with integrity and invite them to do so as well. Take things a step at a time. Give them consequences when they refuse to deal with serious issues, and pray. Pray like the dickens. Pray every step of the way.

Yes—God is sovereign. And in his sovereignty he created a world in which the choices of men and angels matter. Tremendously. He has granted to us "the dignity of causation," as Pascal called it. Our choices have enormous consequences.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. 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 morality.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.