Quotes About Consequence

Don't be afraid to burn a bridge you never want to cross again.

Don't wait until regrets are your only option, make the changes and act before it's too late.

An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.

You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like to forget them.

behaved improperly with his wife-and lost his divorce suit in the bargain. On April 25, 1907, Cody wrote that

Power without foresight leads to disaster.

You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.

Once norms are broken without consequence, further breakage ensues.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn't hope to find himself again.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip, To haud the wretch in order;

like a turtle, the Spartans sacrificed mobility for safety. They managed to preserve stability for three hundred years, but at what cost? They had no culture beyond warfare, ... While their neighbors took to the sea, learning to adapt to a world of constant motion, the Spartans entombed themselves in their own system.... Only stasis allowed them to survive. But nothing in the world can remain stable forever, and the shell or system you evolve for your protection will someday prove your undoing.

This combination of incompetence and accidents led to increasing public hostility toward chemical weapons. After all, it was argued, if a few pounds of nerve agent was sufficient to kill 6,000 sheep, what would be the consequence of a full-scale accident?

Go and do your business, Mr Nayler. There will soon be heads on spikes all over London. But bear in mind that one day one of them may be mine.

Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.' J. V. Stalin, 1918

Every evil is easily crushed at birth; allow it to become established and it always gathers strength.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

So are you telling me… he composed his thoughts. Are you telling me that if you told the last story again, and changed the young woman to a young man, then somewhere in history that same young woman would suddenly grow a beard? Tallis laughed at the image. I don't know, she said. I suppose so.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.