Quotes About Consequence

It seemed a good idea at the time.

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

Enough talk," Peter said, and his eyes flashed. "It's time to turn you three into killers.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

By losing present time, we lose all time.

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) 'Cause the sonofabitch can't tell time. (Steele)

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

As I turned around to receive my injection, I said, 'Next time I'll use some protection.' If I see another girl and I get an erection... I'm walking in the other direction!

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled. "Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.

But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'- and tore it up.

Âdem, yaln?zca bir insand?. Bu her ÅŸeyi aç?kl?yor. Elmay?, yemek için deÄŸil, yasak olduÄŸu için istemiÅŸti. As?l hata, y?lan? yasaklamam?? olmakt?. Çünkü o zaman onu yemek isteyecekti.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way.

Well, I know. It's jam—that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

All right then, I'll go to hell.