Quotes About Consequence

Regret is the quintessential upward counterfactual—the ultimate If Only.

We live, and then forgetting -- we live yet again. Sometimes, the consequences of the past follow us across many lives.

Be careful what you wish for you just might get it.

what we do as a result of our emotions that determines whether our behavior is OK or not OK.

What lesson do I want to teach in this moment? The lesson is not that misbehavior merits a consequence, but that there are better ways of getting your attention and managing his anger than resorting to violence.

What lesson do I want to teach in this moment? Again, the goal of discipline isn't to give a consequence. We want to teach a lesson—whether it's about self-control, the importance of sharing, acting responsibly, or anything else.

The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.

A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight.

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

The sanctions have been a key element in making sure that those who have violated human rights and are guilty of corruption have a clear consequence to their actions. They have also been key to helping protect the assets of the Venezuelan people.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

The lowest point for me was ending up in prison after a violent event. I realised I was way out of my depth.

To me violence, once you've done one violent act it leads to another, it leads to another, it leads to another, it becomes routine.

Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

Humanity is a virus.

biggest troublemaker you'll ever meet stares you in the face when you brush your teeth. —Dutch Callahan