Quotes About Repercussions

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.

This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track. (Dark City Lights)

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.

I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.

For example, executives and HR departments should not offer the vice president of Enron a string of government jobs in the public-private international development and infrastructure industries after his company's debacle.

Choices have consequences.

...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.

The side effects are not life-threatening, but they are not trivial. The

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.

Don't you know that everything you do in life has consequences?

the design process is one that must accept innovation risk. Innovation risk is the chance that a new product, system, or service may fail. The larger the risk, the larger the reward. Similarly, the larger the innovation risk, the deeper the repercussions of failure.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

the Afghans were well aware of what happened in Iraq during the Gulf War, when the Shiites and Kurds believed the leaflets the Americans dropped urging them to rise up against Saddam Hussein. They did, and the Americans did not come. Saddam's forces had retaliated by massacring the insurgents. "The Afghans in the south fear the same fate—they need to be assured

MI5 was careful to destroy the traffic, aware of the potential repercussions if the inhabitants of southern London realized they were being sacrificed to protect the center of the city.

Of course, by that time much of the damage had been done.

All this financial turmoil had direct consequences for Main Street America.

But we knew more shoes could drop.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

The only thing worse than domestic violence or abuse is being accused of it when you haven't done it.

I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.

That was horrifying. Fear had blinded me to this but the situation had changed. What if I were found out? Exposed. Prosecuted. Disbarred. My life would crumble. I would have no job, my prospects would be dismal, and it was impossible to know how Spaulding would react. And the only person whose opinion mattered, the only one, was Spaulding.