Quotes About Consequence

Some of you with Pilate wash your hands,Showing an outward pity.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard...

What's done can't be undone.

For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.

He was asking for it, and he basically made me do it, and I just weren't powerful enough to hold back the surge that took me over. Blaming me is like blaming the sky for raining.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.

The government had to choose between shame and war. They have chosen shame, and now they will get war.

When you choose a behavior , you choose the consequences .

not to decide is to decide .

When you give up God, this forces God to give you up. If you let go of God, God will be compelled to let go of you. This is most deplorable. It is terrible to be given up by God.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

If we don't cast a ballot, it's going to end up in a situation where we're going to have to cast a bullet. It's either a ballot or a bullet.

Are you just going to stand there frying hamburgers while your child could be dying in a fire?

Nothing is more frightening than a law that has never been enforced. When the authorities want to throw someone in jail, all they have to do is suddenly arrest him for breaking a law that no one has bothered to obey yet.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Why didn't I ask him for his number, address, e-mail — anything? Why? Because I'm in a sodding war zone, that's why. And I'm a soldier. And this wasn't supposed to happen.

All is cause and effect. Action and reaction.

Karma operates not so much as some external credit-and-debit ledger but more as an energy, a charge that grows over time. This is how even small acts of generosity, especially when motivated by the best intention, can become causes for much greater wealth in the future.

the principle of karma, the law of cause and effect. There can be no effect, such as success, without a cause.

If you have not been born again, a day will come when you wish you had never been born at all.

I just used my Bible to smash a bug on my desk. That's bad, isn't it?) The

Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an "extra" hundred thousand pigs and dispose of their bodies in bulldozed pits, you'd remember the difference as significant.