Quotes About Consequences

One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.

Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.

Implication Questions take a customer problem and explore its effects or consequences. As we'll see, by asking Implication Questions successful people help the customer understand a problem's seriousness or urgency.

Remember, don't burn your bridges—there might be crocodiles in the river.

skip a day's class

The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it.

There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price.

For so many years I had used my connections to get special treatment. I expected people to overlook my tendency to bend the rules or cut corners or even kite checks. Standing in the hallway, temporarily banished from my prison room for illicit possession of office supplies, I felt good about telling the truth. It was a small thing. Nothing at risk but a few sheets of carbon paper. But it felt important.

los que corren grandes riesgos a veces se enfrentan a graves consecuencias.

Do not light candles in shops. That is an invisible rule. An invisible rule is a rule that no one tells you about until you break it, and then everyone gets cross and tells you shouldn't have broken the rule, even though they did not tell you the rule, it is always a very important rule.

what we have done is unacceptable.

Hitler has missed the bus.

Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him.

You can't make more time, only better choices.

Success and failure are not accidents but consequences. If you want to know what you sowed in the past, look around you and see what you are reaping today.

Life offers all of us a special deal indefinitely. With every choice, we receive at least one free consequence. Everything you do or fail to do counts. Every action has a consequence, even if it isn't immediate. At this moment, you are either becoming more like the person God wants you to become, or you are not! There is no neutrality.

Tus propias acciones son un espejo mejor de tu vida que todas las acciones juntas de tus enemigos.

You can't go encouraging the Vincent Cunninghams of the world because the truth is boys can fall deeper in love than girls, they're a lot bigger and heavier and they can fall much further and harder and when they hit the ground of reality there's just this terrible splosh that some other woman is going to have to come along and try to put back into the bottle.

but look," he said, a little desperately. "What would the world be like if everyone settled things like this?" Frieda stood up. "What is the world like?" she said.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.