Quotes About Consequence

All he did was blow a lousy few million and they took his company away from him." Now, Sculley reflected, he was taking Jobs's company away from him.

It's best not to mess with karma." Why

Decidere quello che non si deve fare è non meno importante che decidere quello che si deve fare.

Para castigarme por mi desprecio a la autoridad, el Destino me ha convertido en autoridad a mí mismo.

A small chance of distress or disgrace cannot, in our view, be offset by a large chance of extra returns.

I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches—representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you'd punched through the card, you couldn't make any more investments at all. Under those rules, you'd really think carefully about what you did and you'd be forced to load up on what you'd really thought about. So you'd do so much better.

Predicting causes litter.

The slightest departure from absolute obedience to God's law is sin.

every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

He'd crossed the line, man. He'd crossed it big-time.

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!" "Maybe I could blame it on society!

It's your money or you'll be wearing cement shoes - Peppermint Patty

Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'échafaud." (Shame comes from the crime, not the scaffold.)

If we don't take risks in life, the price can sometimes be far higher.

But words are like bullets. Once they exit the barrel, it's impossible to bring them back.

Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there.

When you watch the living force go out of a man's face as you fire your weapon into his unprotected body, it is very personal

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

But the most dangerous consequence of the naked public square is the loss of community.

When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself. Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

You know as well as I do that any regrets we have are for things we chose not to do, not for the things we chose to do.

I killed one man to save one hundred thousand.

Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.