Quotes About Consequence

the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't. Which brought us to the fifth risk.

Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef.

People regretted what they had done, and what they wished they hadn't done, far more than what they had not done and perhaps should have.

When one fails to take action that could have avoided a disaster, one does not accept responsibility for the occurrence of the disaster.

Amos thought people paid an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment," said his friend Avishai Margalit, "and he himself decided very early on it was not worth it.

We are the only reason your shitty state is standing.

What could go wrong?

Spivey was a worrier. He thought that when a person took risks, the thing that went wrong was usually a thing the person hadn't thought about, and so he tried to think about the things he wouldn't naturally think about.

you have become all the things you have done and thought, and now can't undo or unthink.

Everything you do is a one-way street.

Power is neither good nor evil. It is the use one makes of it which is good or evil.

He sighed. "Well, our advice was foolish. Now you will die when we die." "I would rather that, I think," I said.

One consequence of thoroughgoing evangelical individualism is a tendency to be ahistorical, to not grasp fully how history has an influence on the present.

Capitalism is a rational system, the well-calculated systematic maximization of power and profits, a process of accumulation anchored in material obsession that has the ultimately irrational consequence of devouring the system itself-and everything else with it.

its power to imbue everything in our field of experience with a heightened sense of purpose and consequence.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Slavery was our nation's original sin.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'