Quotes About Consequences

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

It's not like we don't want to be in love, we just think about the consequences, it might mess up things and leave us broken-hearted in the end.

Love and Karma should be sisters, because they're both bi...es.

But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What actually happened in the end was what mattered.

know that for centuries Catholic priests were allowed to be married? It was the First Lateran Council that changed that in the twelfth century. When there was pushback from the clergy, the Vatican began arresting and killing the wives. Some were even sold into slavery. To avoid this happening to their loved ones, the priests accepted the new rules. In a gracious touch, the surviving wives were allowed to be considered widows by the pope rather than divorcées.

When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness.

Ousted from the Lincoln ticket, Hamlin—temperate when it came to his own drinking—perhaps was only too happy to comply. And so Johnson—on one of the most important days of his political career—opted for the dubious "hair of the dog" strategy. But sometimes the dog bites back.

Some people just fated to fuck up even when them smart enough to know better.

retribution was coming for the stupid, not the smart.

Shit doesn't just happen in a void, there're ripples and consequences and even with all that there's still a whole fucking world going on, whether you're doing something or not.

Know something too late? Well, is better you never know, as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

Wh-what do you think you are doing?" "I am getting some sleep, Governess. And so help me, if you keep me from it, your lovely backside will be a latticework of switch marks." Summer held her breath as Wade yawned, shifted, and settled into a more comfortable position. Surely he was not thinking she would remain with him like this for the rest of the night! "Captain Wade, I must insist--!" "Blood

And mind you keep a sharp eye on this child's back. If you let so much as a hair on her head fall into harm, I'll pluck you like a chicken and spit you stem to stern." "Don't worry, Old Witch. If anything happens to Blue Eyes, there will not be much left of me after McBride is finished.

It was his idea to go horseback riding that day. It was his idea I could do anything if I just made up my mind to. I fell off the horse because I didn't know how to hold on. Cecil left for pretty much the same reason.

Guilt feelings can cause people to experience severe depression after they have been successful in some work or personal project. Chronic bad luck accidents or impoverished social relations can stem from self-imposed guilt.

We all pay dearly when people respond to our values and needs not out of a desire to give from the heart but out of fear, guilt, or shame. Sooner or later, we will experience the consequences of diminished goodwill on the part of those who comply with our values out of a sense of either external or internal coercion.

When he was troubled, he consulted no one. He knew by the light of faith that God was present, and he contented himself with directing all his actions to Him. He did everything with the intent to please God, and did not worry about consequences. "Useless thoughts spoil everything," he said. All trouble began there. We ought to let go of such thoughts as soon as we are aware of them.

Our quest for a successful outcome may end up doing more harm than good to our organizations, our families, and ourselves.

If you've ever binge-watched a season or two of a TV show on Netflix when you should be studying, or finishing an assignment, or going to sleep, you know how an appealing distraction can trigger a self-defeating choice.

The more aware we are, the less likely any trigger, even in the most mundane circumstances, will prompt hasty unthinking behavior that leads to undesirable consequences.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

For a choice is always a choice among possible alternatives; and it is a rare agent for whom everything is possible. The special agony of this situation is that none of the possibilities is even harmless.

How much does the energy know about me?" "Absolutely everything. More than you know but without the useless judgie parts. Nature doesn't know right or wrong, only consequences. The magic blends with you even as you resist getting out of the way. Your part is to make a choice about using magic in the first place. Magic doesn't intervene without being invited into the party.

Trouble comes to those who bring it upon themselves, her mother used to say