Quotes About Consequence

When the houses of the great collapse Many little people are slain. Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging wain Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.

Wozu Türme bauen wie der Himalaja Wenn man sie nicht umwerfen kann Damit es ein Gelächter gibt?

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Belief in hell takes all beauty from virtue; who cares for obedience only rendered through fear?

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Passion could lead to a place you'll regret.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.

For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

After desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offense.

You must sit down to speak this language, It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it. For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you" -quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

The choices you make create your future.

Reaction to error almost always creates another error.

If you have not lost your self-control, and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot.

Remember that in chess, it's only the square you land on that matters.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

I don't wreck people on purpose - unless they give me a legit reason, but it takes me a lot to do that.

I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.