Quotes About Consequence

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

Abort the thought, save the baby

What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail?

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Hell is truth seen too late.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

[On slavery:] We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird