Quotes About Consequence

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

Before, if I'm in the wrong situation I tended to fight back and react in a way I know I shouldn't. If I feel backed into a corner or threatened, I will defend myself. Obviously it's wrong.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

I usually know when something is going to end up being catastrophic but I don't really care. I find that the things that end up being earth shattering are the things that give me the most thrill.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.

I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!

SUTRA #10 As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.

I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it.

I'm wondering what if. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. What if Hector had never gone looking for it. What if he hadn't kept the dark secret to himself. What if . . . Then I suppose I would be telling myself another story. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.

Alarm-based marketing logic often goes something like this: There is a limited quantity (scarcity). Unless you act now (urgency), you'll lose your opportunity (consequence). When crafting a message for an audience who is stuck in apathy or indecision, deadlines and consequences overcome inertia to create action.

Married in haste, we repent at leisure.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

As the ancientsSay wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,And look before you ere you leap;For as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Boredom and booze--cause and effect.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

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