Quotes About Consequence

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

There's life and death in every email.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

I am a victim of my own behavior.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

You get what you order in life.

I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?