Quotes About Consequence

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

Any type of violent attack can be termed as a result of legal terms,

I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's

In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

No doing without some ruing.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one less traveled by-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.