Quotes About Consequences

A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don't want to lose anything they have - and that's OK. We don't all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what's the worst that could happen?

If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There's choices and consequences in life for everything. There's consequences if you play football.

Every player makes mistakes; every goalkeeper makes mistakes. Every manager does, every broadcaster - every person in life makes mistakes. But for goalkeepers, often when they make a mistake, it leads to a goal.

Most parents would not hesitate to assume responsibility for their child's behavior on a playground, at school, or in someone else's home. What happens online should be no different. Parents should talk with their children about computer ethics, stipulate rules of conduct, and - most importantly - establish consequences.

Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that.

Please dox me. You don't even need to dox me - I'll give you my address and wait for you by my doorstep.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

I skipped class a lot.

I would kill the clone. That would be my first response.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.

It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.