Quotes About Consequences

Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.

My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.