Quotes About Consequence

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Like most shortcuts, it was an ill-chosen route

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Responsibility educates.

True regret is based on repentance – grieving for the sin, not the consequence of sin.

That may be why, ultimately, I was fired.

Una de las grandes vergüenzas de la experiencia humana es que solo sabemos adoptar la conducta adecuada cuando ya es muy tarde.

If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.

The conscience that only thinks about appearance does not suffer the consequence."

Time will say nothing but I told you so. Time only knows the price we have to pay.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which

You know what they say about vengeance?" "What's that?" "'If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two.'" "That's a very old Arab proverb." "It's Jewish, actually.

What's done cannot be undone. —Macbeth (1606), act 5, scene 1

When one is making an omelet it is necessary to break eggs. - Saladin

most people think they will regret foolish actions more than foolish inactions.

in the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did

The definition of a calculated risk is a gamble which military men take when they can't figure out what else to do and which turns out to be right. When it turns out wrong, it wasn't a calculated risk at all. It was a piece of utter stupidity.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

She didn't know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from remorse, which one felt first in the throat and only later in the gut. Yet it was regret that she couldn't handle. She did anything she could to avoid it—including the initial bargain, the one that began everything. And now this one.

a difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.