Quotes About Consequence

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you sorrow, my pretty princess.

And if I perish, I perish

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

We know how hard it is to travel around and if the schedules are really tight for you, it means you're doing really well because you're not going home early from many events. When you go deep in tournaments, that's the consequence you have to pay I suppose.

I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.

Hell is truth seen too late.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

Don't give a reward for bad behavior.

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.