Quotes About Consequences

It seems there is always a road with bends and forks to choose, and taking one path means you can never take another one. There's no starting over nor undoing the steps I've taken

Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.

In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. "Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?

A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

Listening to things that are not true is the first step toward ultimate bondage and death. That

The consequences of an ungrateful spirit are not as readily seen as, say, those of a contagious disease. But they are no less deadly. Western civilization has fallen prey to an epidemic of ingratitude. Like a poisonous vapor, this subtle sin is polluting our lives, our homes, our churches, and our culture.

Freudian notion that people act out what they cannot remember or what they cannot allow themselves to feel. It follows that as long as people are able to enact a dynamic (in this case, most frequently a disavowed dependency or a compulsion to be in control), they do not have to think about why they persistently behave in a particular way. When there are no negative consequences for their behavior, interpretations just roll off them.

God offers grace and forgiveness for a contrite heart. But society offers cruel consequences and never forgives.

Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.

God's judgment often consists in giving people what they want and letting them experience the self-inflicted consequences of their choices. He allows them to choose ways of thinking and living that are self-destructive, tearing down the honor and dignity of others and themselves.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Hysterical. That word had unfortunate ramifications.

Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later.

If spanking worked, we'd only have to do it once.

Men did not want to get caught, but this fear wasn't there for the right reasons. They didn't want their wives to discover they were having an affair because they would make it harder for them to get away with it the next time.

But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I was too afraid for too long. It made me think about things I never should have.

Killing people is simple. All you have to do is forget the taste of sugar.

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

And all we have, in the end, are the choices we make.

One of them says, "Why did they do it, Nina and Darrell?" And the other answers, "Because they could." That is the only answer there ever is.

Dovid thought: our words will swallow us. We have spat them out, but in the end they will drown us.

That those who live narrow lives have only themselves to blame when they find themselves shocked.

We don't have to ask ourselves what they will do if they win. We've already seen it.