Quotes About Consequences

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

When you drink alcohol you are just borrowing happiness from tomorrow.

Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies.

Short term gain will result in long term pain

Life is not about reasons, explanations, interpretations, or solutions. It's all about actions and reactions.

The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.