Quotes About Consequences

There's an old Irish saying: Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose.

It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, "Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.

But what really sealed Britain's fate were similar attacks on the other side of the empire.

With both Cynewulf and Cyneheard dead, and many of their men with them,

willing to gamble that war would make them richer.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit

Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.

Greedily they plucked The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived. They, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chewed bitter ashes

One fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd Forbidden them to taste. Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know? Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith?

We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!

Cuando se recompensa la codicia humana, ésta se convierte en un poderoso inductor de corrupción.

Rapacious great power is ruthless and vindictive; many of us can't imagine because we're not like that in our lives. John Pilger

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. —John Ray (1670)

Close one Pandora's Box and we open another, the President said. That's science for you, Mr. President.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.

Pee on these plants, and you will be shot; Survivors will be shot again.

Osborne said. "I miss Mom, though. That didn't have to happen. The guy who killed her . . . If I knew who it was, I'd think about killing him myself." "Not what you usually want to tell a couple of cops," Jenkins said. "Now if he gets run over by a car, people are going to be looking at your front bumper." "Okay, so I'll back over him," Osborne said.

We see things as they are, we project out consequences of our actions, very pragmatically. We don't stir in a lot of hope, we don't turn blind eyes.

He realized he was having a hard time recognizing that Marcy was gone, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it, and that killing Fell would not answer the problem he was having with her death, would not bring her back, and could have devastating consequences for himself and his family. The little man at the back of his mind could whisper all of that to him: and yet, that realization had little effect on the urge for revenge.

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

You're an interesting person, Jack. Sullivan said. I wish I could figure out what you were thinging when you punched Stern and turned on Isabel. Well, I think that's the thing. Holloway said. I think it's clear that sometimes I just don't think. I think you do. Sullivan said. It's just you think about you first. The not thinking part comes right after that.