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Quotes About Consequence

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.
~ Steven Bochco
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Few provisions of the Constitution are more plain than Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7: 'No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.'
~ Tom Malinowski
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.
~ Michael Gove
What you choose also chooses you.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
~ Sophocles, Antigone
A wrong choice thwarts God's original intention
~ Sunday Adelaja
As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?
~ Kamand Kojouri
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
You win some, you lose some, let Karma takes its course… - Cocoy McCoy -
~ Cocoy McCoy
The truth is often of no consequence.
~ Ross Turner, Reaper
They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
~ Frederick Douglass
I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you've got coming.
~ Ted Cruz
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
~ Charlie Munger
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
~ Gillian Flynn
When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?
~ Joey Tempest
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,
~ Stephen Bungay
Blessed is the man who, having subdued all his passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil; for such an equality is called yoga.
~ Stephen Cope
We all think we're retaliating," I say. "That's the nature of conflict. We all think our actions are justified by someone else's actions. But actually, we're responsible for what we do.
~ Stephen Elliott
Is it really winning if everybody dies?
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Stupid girls run upstairs, stupid girls run upstairs," she's saying to herself, turning to pull Ben with her up the aluminum steps, Billie Jean just feet behind them
~ Stephen Graham Jones