Quotes About Consequence

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.

this was a consequence of increasing prosperity, which, curiously enough, just seemed to bring out greed and selfishness.

But she had never once regretted what she had done under the influence of tea, and would not start doing so now.

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni had been uncertain what to say. He wondered whether he should ask Mma Ramotswe why she had not consulted him, but decided against it. If husbands started to question their wives' decisions, then where would it end, and what purpose would it serve? You could not undo what your wife had done.

post hoc ergo propter hoc. In other words, there would be no causal

Minty's in a bit of trouble, and he was not surprised. He said something about her sailing too close to the wind.

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in close contact with someone to whom she was a nonperson, and who thereby rendered her invisible and of no consequence.