Quotes About Consequence

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Movies and television show build on top of each other, succeed one another. In a large way, in terms of filmmaking aesthetics, they evolve because they can't help but be a consequence of all the movies and TV shows that came before it.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

Somebody somewhere decided to put me on TV without really thinking twice about it.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

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

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.