Quotes About Consequence

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.

I get that you have to go to the net and score goals, but if you're going to run over the goalie there should be some type of consequence.

I know that when you take a risk, the consequence will never be a neutral response; it will either be very positive or very negative.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

There is no point in doing a lengthy role if there is no importance in it.

Everything she did had a purpose, and though she believed she was keeping her life orderly in this way, she now realized that it had been a mistake. It

Realizing that if she quit now, she would always wonder what would happened. And she didn't think she could live with that.

And it's not like you never do anything wrong ever, is it?' said Marcus. 'I mean...' He had to be careful here. He knew he couldn't say too much or even anything at all about the hospital stuff. 'I mean how come I got to know Will in the first place?' Because you threw a bloody great baguette at a duck's head and killed it, basically,' said Will.

Anyway, all I'm saying is that there was this time--maybe it was a day, maybe a few days, I can't remember now--when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.

She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything

I'm stuck in this pose, this shop-managing pose, forever, because of a few short weeks in 1979 when I went a bit potty for a while. It could be worse, I guess; I could have walked into an army recruiting office, or the nearest Slaughterhouse. But even so, I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

Se for necessário fazer mal a um homem, então que seja de tal forma grave, que não haja razão para temer a sua vingança.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.

He answered me: "Forgive me for saying this, Boss, but you are a pen pusher. You poor creep, you had the chance of a lifetime to see a beautiful green stone, and you didn't see it. By God, sometimes when I have no work to do, I sit down and ask myself, 'Is there a hell or isn't there?' But yesterday, when I received your letter, I said to myself, 'There sure is a hell for certain pen pushers!'

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Are you sure you want to quit? All unsaved progress will be lost.

When we pay attention to life, it is easy to recognize that every action has a consequence: when we cling, we suffer; when we act selfishly or violently, we cause suffering for ourselves or others. This is the teaching of karma: positive actions have positive outcomes; negative actions have negative outcomes.

And then it hit me: he doesn't love me. It hit me with a shimmering clarity: that was all there was to it. It didn't matter if he was crazy. It didn't matter if I was innocent or guilty. Nothing mattered except that he didn't love me. If I throw this pie at him, he will never love me. But he doesn't love me anyway. So I can throw the pie if I want to. I picked up the pie and thanked God for the linoleum floor, and threw it.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap? She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. You hardly ever make the jump.