Quotes About Consequences

No matter who won this battle, a race would be wiped out.

People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

through phase draws accusations of wavering and weakness. Critics who shout, "Do something!" usually haven't a clue that every forceful action in the crisis du jour can have untoward consequences. Muddling reflects the reality of crisis decision making, but it doesn't readily fit popular perceptions of leadership, especially when magnified

Trouble might come for you when you showed fear, but trouble doubled down when you lied about being afraid.

On another day, when he was on inspection duty, Trump came upon fellow student Ted Levine's unmade bed. Trump ripped the sheets off and threw them on the floor. Levine, a foot shorter than Trump, threw a combat boot at Donald, then hit him with a broomstick. Infuriated, Trump grabbed Levine and tried to push him out a second-floor window, Levine recalled. Two other cadets intervened to prevent Levine from falling.

Christianity did not create the Holocaust—indeed, Nazism was anti-Christian—but it made it possible. Without Christian antisemitism, the Holocaust would have been inconceivable.…

Let him who has done this be removed from among you" (1 Cor. 5:1–2). He even ordered that the offending, unrepentant brother be delivered "to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord" (v. 5).

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.

That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.

Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.

To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences for defying all of it is to achieve a level of contentment.

The Cathedral predicted that Brexit wouldn't pass, and that if it did pass there would be disastrous consequences. Neither of these came true,

After once watching an accountant from Boise look straight down the barrel of his loaded rifle in an effort to figure out why it wasn't firing, he figured out that stupidity was likely a terminal condition.

Bad things had a way of happening to people who opened their mouths in the Murder Capital of the United States.

The law of intended consequences," she said. "That's what I call it anyway. When you look for what you expect to find, invariably you'll find it.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

If the execution of a million or more sentient beings, the destruction of a dozen planetary communities, isn't enough—if the members of the Council need a living victim paraded in front of them to move them to act—then shame on them. And shame on us.

Looking back, Eddy still couldn't see what was so awful about what he'd done. He'd gone to camp to have fun, but every time he tried, it just got him deeper into trouble.

Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.

The root of all sin is found in the runaway indulgence of God-given desires.

Parent, you can't blame your children if you have trained them to obey only after several warnings, threats, an ultimatum or two, and finally with a gesture of force. It's not their fault. It's yours.

Parents just don't realize what they are doing to their children when they provide a diet that makes their children overweight. The harm is permanent.