Quotes About Consequence

Wealth is a common side effect of no remorse.

Larry's major concern was not about landing, but to avoid going too high where the air was thin and the temperature low. At about fifteen thousand feet, Larry decided that it was time to descend a bit. As planned, he fired his BB gun at the balloons and punctured seven of them. Just at the moment that he was gazing down to check his altimeter, a gust

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

la mayoría de los abortos sólo cambian en que un niño no nace hoy pero otro nace unos años más tarde de la misma madre.

An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.

Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don't act on it.

riesgo = peligro + escándalo.

Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once. Space is nature's way to keep everything from happening to me.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

What reality is is an emergent consequence of the interaction between something that is painfully limited-- like us-- and whatever the absolute is, which is something that is completely without borders.

Why? Because the consequence of remaining silent is worse. Of course, it's easier in the moment to stay silent and avoid conflict. But in the long term, that's deadly. When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies. When should you push back against oppression, despite the danger? When you start nursing secret fantasies of revenge; when your life is being poisoned and your imagination fills with the wish to devour and destroy.

one bird, usually the largest, will eventually win—but even the victor may be hurt by the fight. That means a third bird, an undamaged, canny bystander, can move in, opportunistically, and defeat the now-crippled victor. That is not at all a good deal for the first two birds

Vice is easy. Failure is easy, too. It's easier not to shoulder a burden. It's easier not to think, and not to do, and not to care. It's easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today's cheap pleasures. As the infamous father of the Simpson clan puts it, immediately prior to downing a jar of mayonnaise and vodka, "That's a problem for Future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy!

the worst decision of all is none.

Much more of our sanity than we commonly realize is a consequence of our fortunate immersion in a social community.

El temor es la reacción innata a todo lo que no se ha vuelto predecible, como consecuencia de una conducta exitosa, creativa, exploratoria asumida en su presencia, en algún momento del pasado.

hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that's sin. That's failure to hit the mark. And the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).