Quotes About Consequences

When you get away with something it's yours only, forever. Heavy and irremediable.

Because the bad things you do become part of you, literally. This is no metaphor. They become part of you on a cellular level, in the blood.

The pause that followed felt very important. It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.

the bad things you do become part of you, literally.

It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.

So I ignored the rest. I ignored everything that told me nothing was as I'd believed. That was my first mistake.

How could he look exactly the same as he always did? How could he so nonchalantly shatter all the things I'd believed and bear no outward sign of it? I didn't understand. It seemed to me that if someone hurt you, there should be some kind of boomerang effect. They should get hit with it, too, so it wasn't just you. So they didn't get off scot-free while you marinated in the pain.

Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it's the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it's the choices we don't make.

I knew I'd sounded bitter, but I didn't bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. "I hope it was worth it, Mom.

Sometimes, you ruined things and couldn't fix them.

had learned from painful experience would lead to whispers and the shaking of heads. Gossip grew quickly from seeds into vast, tangling jungles of strangling vines and carnivorous flowers. You could spend years trying to hack your way out of that poisoned garden.

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!

The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!

There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!

He is the one who should apologize," he said to the foreman. "He broke down our door and sat on our fire.

He hated sounding guilty. Terrible things always followed.