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Quotes About Consequence

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
~ John Gay
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.
~ John Hall Gladstone
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~ Ronald Knox
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong
~ George Soros
I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.
~ Jimmy Buffett
That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.
~ Robert F. Engle
I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.
~ Clive Palmer
The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.
~ John Kluge
I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.
~ Tavis Smiley
Everybody has something to lose. You have points to lose. You have money to lose. You have opportunity to lose.
~ Victoria Azarenka
Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.
~ Richie Norton
You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.
~ Ruth Davidson
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.
~ Eric Clapton
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
~ Samuel Johnson
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
~ Jean Racine
You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.
~ Boris Yeltsin
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
~ Bernard Baruch
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
~ Yogi Berra