Quotes About Consequences

Squander your youth," he wanted to say, "and you'll have a lifetime to make heavy payments.

Neither the city planners nor the traffic planners put city space and city life high on their agenda, and for years there was hardly any knowledge about how physical structures influence human behavior. The drastic consequences of this type of planning on people's use of the city were not recognized until later.

The Nature cannot Speak with words but will show us In the Future what we do Wrong now.

For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you've gone through a bagful." He rinsed the razor under the tap. "Worst of all, you become a slave to something that isn't real.

One time," Gertie said. "You go out into a hurricane one time and you never hear the end of it.

I will never understand a desire for a reckoning so strong that you burn down your own house to get it,

The way you build your bed is how you will sleep in it",

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades, what will she say? Will she look at me with hatred or with compassion, I whose choices made her what she will be?

The fairy tales warn you: Do not go in, you who would eat will be eaten.

Living in the what-ifs is dangerous.

Are you prepared then, to shoot a human being?" he asked, trying not to let Jenny sense his own internal unease. "It's not the same as shooting a duck or gazelle." Jenny's violet eyes met his straight on. "If that human being was about to harm any one of us, I'd feel worse about shooting the duck. It, at least, would have done nothing to deserve a bullet.

Late one night, an account man was having sex with his secretary. He was fairly junior, so his inside office didn't have a door, and the big boss happened to be working late and caught them. The result: the account guy was promoted and got an office with a door; the secretary was fired.

Punishment may seem to "work" in the short term. But over time, it creates rebellion, resistance, and children who don't believe in their own worth and capability

On the moonless night of April 14, 1865, days after a plot to blow up the White House failed, John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln. During the twelve days of

how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

If you let that tempestuous girl order you around or insult you again, I'll turn you over my knees and spank you. If she's going to treat my wife like that, then she'd best get the hell out of my home. The first time she ordered you out of your own kitchen, you should have flung a skillet at her, preferably a hot one." -Lynx

Tell me one thing. Are you going to hack into SKC servers with this?" "It's an option." "You could go to jail for that." He smiled. "They would have to catch me." "And that would never happen," she said with a dash of scorn. "I don't make too many mistakes, Kenzie." "Sometimes I wish you would," she sighed.

When the land is abused, nature has a way of striking back. Land will eventually go back to what nature intended, but the cost is high. The land is what it is, no matter what man does or thinks he can do. Benteen Calder knew it, and Webb knew learned it. Hopes die and man moves on, but the land stays.

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.

The family is affected when the relatives and friends can no longer tolerate the consequences of alcoholism and avoid the alcoholic and his/her family. The family is also directly affected by the alcoholic's behavior. Unable, without help, to counteract this, the family members get caught up in the consequences of the illness and become emotionally ill themselves.

Estoy acosando a un hombre hasta la muerte, a un hombre que ha sido muchas veces bueno conmigo, el padre de mi hijo pequeño. Estoy destruyendo la felicidad de mi familia, ¿y por qué? Por el bien de la verdad, para liberarme de un engaño que estaba consumiéndome, matándome.