Quotes About Consequences

It was like having your teenager sell a spin in your Ferrari for a dollar. The more rides he sells, the more money he makes, until he wrecks your Ferrari.

In the meantime, the world had not come to an end in 1492. There were a variety of consequences of this non-event.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…"

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions." [ Why Societies Collapse , ABC Local, July 17, 2003]

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Jokainen on valmis mihin tahansa josta ei jää kiinni.

She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. That's life. That's love. That's fiscally irresponsible.

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you're telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.

MAGIC secret. It was a prime example of the brutal choices that codebreakers must live with. Do you take risks to keep a secret that may save hundreds of thousands of future lives, or do you expose the secret to save a small number of lives right now? William once referred to this broad dilemma as "cryptologic schizophrenia," adding, "What to do? Thus far, no real psychiatric or psychoanalytic cure has been found for the illness.

When someone takes your time, it doesn't cost them anything, but it costs you everything.

It was amazing that it could be done, but we had forgotten to ask whether it should be done.

With great power comes great ignorance.

We haven't done anything," Luke agreed, though he knew that was no guarantee of safety. Plenty of things happened to people who hadn't done anything—things that were never discussed again, or at least not by anyone with any sense.

We haven't done anything," Luke agreed, though he knew that was no guarantee of safety. Plenty of things happened to people who hadn't done anything - things that were never discussed again, or at least not by anyone with any sense.

Lies beget lies," he said. "Until, one day, someone needs the truth." Palewski

Uno olvida el daño que causa infinitamente más que el que se le inflige, uno olvida cuanto dice y hace y escribe, rara vez lo que oye y lee y padece.

e assumir uma enorme responsabilidade, a de revelar a alguém o que talvez não quisesse saber, e nunca se sabe o que alguém não quer saber até se lhe fazer a revelação, e então o possível mal não tem remédio e é tarde para a retirar, para voltar atrás.

acontecido es por eso mucho menos grave siempre que los temores y las hipótesis, las