Quotes About Consequence

with a child on his first offence, and a grieved look is enough to convict the little transgressor; but let him go on until a habit of wrong-doing is formed, and the cure is a slow one; then the mother has no chance until she has formed in him a contrary habit of well-doing.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Sin is rarely without complication

I immediately felt better about killing him. I've never known a Trevor who wasn't a total douchebag. It's just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he'd been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone—along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But

Who would I be if I didn't? Who would I be if I did?

Later, Jim thought of the bus the same way he thought of a Harlem whore. Everything is so easy until you step into that dark hallway, and bang.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak.

It's usually when a man speaks without thinking that he says what he thinks.

A vice is a harm I do to myself in the pursuit of pleasure.

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Confucius say: Man who put face in bowl get punch in nose.

The Earth just sent us all to our rooms to think about what we've done.

See Dick drink. See Dick drive. See Dick die. Don't be a Dick.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

A change in behavior is required to change karma

We create our Karma and we can change it

The word came into her mind just as quickly as it had done yesterday. "Crap." She hadn't been able to hold it back then—it had flown out of her mouth like an angry and hotheaded little swallow, and in a flash it had changed into a big cloud.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

You know what I think of a guy who wags a finger at me and makes a tut-tut-tut noise? I think he's begging to lose a finger.

The longest day of sunlight...comes at the beginning of Summer rather than in its midst. In consequence, all Summer long we are inclining towards Summer's end instead of building to a climax and then tapering off.