Quotes About Consequence

People still use the phrase hoisted by his own petard

Kumar and I ended up stuffing tissue paper up our nostrils, but agreed that if we had to come down again more drastic action would be justified - like amputation.

You laid hands upon the blood of the dragon and for that offense, you must be punished.

but Sindermann knew that to ignore the past was to doom the future to repeat it.

retribution [sic] for the wrongs I have committed.

and thus disqualified from continuing as chairman.

the investor would be on the hook for 10 percent of the loss.

It usually results in better decisions,

But that's the baggage that comes with consequential policy jobs,

This time the problems ran deeper and the statement did not have its hoped-for effect.

that letting Lehman go was a choice rather than an unavoidable outcome.

Each time, the move had proved premature and the bank was forced to reverse itself.

In that sense, a Lehman-type episode was probably inevitable.

It turned out, however, to have been the right appointment.

Turning a blind eye to evil, however, doesn't make it disappear. It allows it to grow. And those who allow evil to grow in order to protect their own convenience will be held accountable for the end results of the evil they facilitate.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

apático y de la timidez que era el resultado

for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

before he could stop himself he heard himself say:

Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.