Quotes About Consequence

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

I once invested in a risky business. Quite a few people warned me not to do so, but I still went ahead and invested the money.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

What's done cannot be undone.

What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.

If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is populace.

I thought there might be some grand design I did not understand, but the government's policy clearly was not working, because India was still poor. I was determined to learn more, so I became interested in economics. This book is another unintended consequence of the government's policies.

Anger most hurts the sender.

Dheedo says: 'Moments that sail past do not return; fortunes lost will not come back; a word uttered cannot be recalled; the released arrow does not revert to the bow; the escaped soul does not re-enter a dead body.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.