Quotes About Consequence

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Even if you have the best intentions, there may sometimes be a price or a cost or a pushback against what you're doing.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

When I take risks, I win. When I do the safe thing, it's a disaster.

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.