Quotes About Consequence

Il arrive si souvent qu'une action trop spontanée soit contre-productive

I don't take responsibility at all." Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history's epitaph on his presidency.

A single moment that lasts a lifetime, still poisoning anything I come close to, to this day. Every person I touch.

I'm tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make myself wait.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.

Chess is infinite and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponents wildest dreams will become reality.

To withdraw life-prolonging treatments when these are no longer of benefit to the patient is to recognise the limits of a doctor's power, allowing the dying person to die as a consequence of their underlying disease. This is clinically, ethically and legally different from deliberately ending life as in euthanasia or PAS." Arguments

In order to help you remember that, here's a little ditty you can recite to yourself before you ease out the clutch: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239

Assume makes an ass out of you and me.

Choices are in our power, but consequences are not.

And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder? --- It's not the same, Cain mutters. --- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.

Know this... The earth sickens of your crime.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

There are no small sins against a great God

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.