Quotes About Consequences

People don't obey a law just because they're told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that's a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.

Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

Truth is dangerous.

Everyone agreed that Lucian would ruin this.

Because women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that, Mackee.

Happy endings didn't happen for cheaters, or heroines who started one relationship without finishing another.

After all, Leonie knew better than most that there were some situations that just couldn't be fixed, and some actions that couldn't be undone.

Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry.

We sat in an awkward silence for some time. I wondered why, after all he had been through with his mother, Eugene welcomed another depressive into his life. Wasn't he afraid of the consequences? How did he escape the contagious effects of mental illness?

Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would appear to me

He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed.

A política é desses incêndios que se acendem na casa do outro e quem arde é a nossa casa.

Quem congemina vinganças acredita antecipar-se ao futuro. É um logro: o vingador vive apenas num tempo que já foi.O vingador não age apenas em nome de quem já morreu. Ele próprio já morreu. Foi morto pelo passado.

European colonists cleared or damaged bush because they did not value it and introduced to more than sixty-five per cent of the continent mono-cultures of non-Australian species they did value... it is our southern Eurasian ancestors... who are actually nomads because we overpopulate... damage land in the process, then wage wars on neighbours to take their land in order to continue to over-populate, and on it goes.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

That's what is happening every time we kill an Iraqi, every time we kill anyone, we are creating a large number of people who are going to want vengeance. And, you know, when are we ever going to learn that that doesn't work?

We don't 'see' odds – how likely the thing is – we 'see' consequences. That's what people would mean if they were to say 'picture the risk'. They mean picture the worst that can happen.

But caution can have unintended consequences. After the 9/11 attacks in New York, many people felt more nervous of flying and took to their cars instead. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer states that 1,500 more people than usual were killed on US roads over the following year.10

I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.

Listen Relda, stop meddling in our affairs or you're going to regret it," said the mayor. "If you don't want me meddling, then you must really do a better job of covering up your mistakes.