Quotes About Consequences

You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

One lies to seek a bit of relief from a ponderous, suffocating reality, but the liar, like the drinker, gradually comes to need larger and larger doses. The lies become blacker and more complex, and they mesh and rub together until in the end they shine with the luster of truth.

O quizá lo que llamamos el Mal sea, en su origen, la Estupidez.

Crime and punishment. Dostoievski. These words grazed over a corner of my mind, startling me. Just supposing Dostoievski ranged 'crime' and 'punishment' side by side not as synonyms but as antonyms. Crime and punishment—absolutely incompatible ideas, irreconcilable as oil and water.

I tell you, those shit-eating bastards, with their primping and posing and pompous speeches, have gone and destroyed the whole country. If they'd all been timid, bashful little fellows, we wouldn't be in this mess today.

Çok iyi olman?n cezas? vard?r.

It may require courage to say what they said, but were they really able to take responsibility for the consequences?

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it. It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll.

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

All great discoveries and inventions spring from the delight of strong men in victory. They are expressions of personality and not of the utilitarian thinking of the masses, who are merely spectators of the event, but must take its consequences whatever they may be.

Why do we have to make such terrible decisions for our whole lives when we are too young to know what we are doing? The big mistakes are hung around your neck and you have to wear them forever.

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.

Woe to the statesman who does not seek in these times a case for war that still holds up after the war is over.

Politics ruins the character.

So we, in thoughtless play, twist the first gleaming and silky threads of the fatal cord which will cling about our necks, fastened beyond hope of release, as long as our lives shall last!

Idleness ruins the constitution

The ends justify the means.

If you're determined to commit suicide, you'll blow your brains out or you'll jump off a tall building. You'll do something that you can't take back, in other words. When you 'try to kill yourself' by taking too many pills – like I did – you know you're probably gonna get found by someone. So all you're doing is sending a message.