Quotes About Consequence

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

How was possible that a small no of men, in the span of a few hours or minutes, could decide the fate of millions of people yet unborn ? How was it possible that the outcome of those brief moments could determine who would determine who would rule whom, who would be rich or poor, master or servant, for generations to come ? Nothing could be a greater injustice, yet such had been the reality ever since human beings first walked the earth.

he recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come

The crime is the punishment.

What apps used by your line function are mission-critical? Which way should the balance between security and user convenience tilt for each of them? ? What data is the most sensitive? What would be the consequence if it were (a) stolen or (b) destroyed? ? How long will your firm avoid permanent damage if your entire IT portfolio became unavailable? This justifies the ongoing costs of the type—cold, warm, or hot—of backup site.

And then I see my mother sitting by the open window, her dark silhouette against the night sky. She turns around in her chair, but I can't see her face. "Fallen down," she says simply. She doesn't apologize. "It doesn't matter," I say, and I start to pick up the broken glass shards. "I knew it would happen." "Then why you don't stop it?" asks my mother. And it's such a simple question.

When the anesthesia of love wears off, you suffer the pain of consequence.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. "I

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.

Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults. The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.

Why didn't he say yes?

Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

There is no question that modern life carries burdens incompatible with the brains we have evolved. Depression may, then, well be a consequence of our doing what we did not evolve to do.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see it anymore.

Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?

And yet, thinkers far more sober than Baudrillard view the events of September 11 as a consequence of American foreign policy.

To say that someone freely chose to squander his life's savings at the poker tabile is to say that he had every opportunity to do otherwise and that nothing about what he did was inadvertent

MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE.

You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.

All change is of itself an evil, which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage; and