Quotes About Consequences

With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

But all through the evening every time I looked at him I'd find his blue eyes fixed on me, with that naked look one can't help recognizing, and can't help remembering either that one has a certain power and occasionally men are vulnerable to it, and sometimes one ends up hurting them. But when it's happening it all seems worth it, and in the end too: however it ends I think, as far as I can tell so far, it still stays worth it.

You break my heart or hers, and I'll cut yours out.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Natural childbirth has evolved to suit the species, and if mankind chooses to ignore her advice and interfere with her workings we must not complain about the consequences. We have only ourselves to blame.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful

So I grew. And as I grew I learned that in the world beyond family and family friends, your mistakes—bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits—could put you, your parents, and your people at risk.

While you wait for a grander plan to emerge in your head, a thousand small choices make up your life, none of them honorable.

El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.

Listen,' someone whispers into my ear. 'Listen to me.' Am I dead? 'Listen,' the voice whispers. 'In some countries, you kill a monster when it's born. Other places, you kill it only when it kills someone else. Other places, you let it go, out into the forest or the sea, and it lives there forever, calling for others of its kind. Listen to me, it cries. Maybe it's just alone.

Han angret at han hadde latt seg overtale av Annika til ikke å undersøke hvor nøkkelen hørte til. Jonas hadde også straks villet finne ut hvor i huset dette rommet var, men Annika hadde vært urokkelig. Dette hadde de ikke noe med. Og kanskje hadde hun rett – de visste jo ikke hva de gav seg ut på …

Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they will suffer instead of the one who was killed. Instead, that person just suffers too.

But if I had not gone through that door, Nico Phelps would probably be in jail and Mr. Farrell would not be. And I would still think you can get through life safe and sound and pure- and actually have a life. I wouldn't know the only way not to make a mistake is to never do anything at all.

Killing her and the boys had not been the best way to resolve the custody dispute.

I never did get to brush my teeth this morning, I haven't been able to brush my hair, and I can't unzip my wet suit because I'm only wearing a bikini." Sam laughed. "That's what you get for boarding vessels scantily clad in the middle of the night." He grinned. "I don't suppose it was enough to prevent you from doing it again." "No." She grinned back at him. "I don't suppose it was.

People do stupid, thoughtless things every day, and very often there's no understanding why.

There was something aggressive in her that always went too far. She had thrown a marcasite egg at her lover's window once, a green egg she particularly valued. She had stayed in this house too long. She had fucked the Director. She had let her breasts hang out before Homer. She had gone too far. No doubt if she had children she would neglect them.