Quotes About Consequence

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive!

If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.

I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

every action has a result.

It's up to you how the law of karma all works out.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

If you try to engineer all of the risk out of a trade, it will only surface somewhere else when it is least welcome.

Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.

the writing of history is often another way of defining chaos. There is in fact a case for saying that human history, as it is generally described and understood, is the sum total of accident and unintended consequence.

Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler's throw

Today is always the result of actions and decisions taken yesterday. Man, however, whatever his title or rank, cannot foresee the future. Yesterday's actions and decisions, no matter how courageous or wise they may have been, inevitably become today's problems

When you added dialogue to your piece, I really understood how Amy [the character] felt." This is not so much praise as a causal statement—you did this [added dialogue], with this consequence [I understood how the character felt]. Causal process statements are at the heart of building agency.

Hell is not populated mainly by passionate rebels but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.

That freedom is lost in Hell.