Quotes About Consequence

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.

Suddenly Mrs. Reilly remembered the horrible night that she and Mr. Reilly had gone to Prytania to see Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in 'Red Dust.' In the heat and confusion that had followed their return home, nice Mr. Reilly had tried one of his indirect approaches, and Ignatius was conceived. Poor Mr. Reilly. He had never gone to another movie as long as he lived.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.

After crossing the Rubicon—the real one—in 49

A lead is good not because it dances, fires cannons, or whistles like a train but because it is absolute to what follows.

I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.