Quotes About Consequence

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day where their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects know all too well what awaits them when the days of wine and roses — the days of interviews — are over. And still they say yes when a journalist calls, and still they are astonished when they see the flash of the knife.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

For every action, there will always be a reaction. Actually, people who do wrong to me or hurt me, something unpleasant surely happens to them. So, I don't have faith in taking revenge.

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals.

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

The only thing that follows work is results.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

Drank a lot of take home pay.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

It is personal - deep in my bones and my flesh - the knowledge that we squandered our chance to avoid the climate emergency; to act when it would have been so much easier, as we did to stop acid rain, to save the ozone layer.