Quotes About Repercussions

every time a bomb exploded, every anti-personnel weapon that sent its hundreds of particles tearing through the sift tissues of soft bodies, every helicopter that was shot down with its crew, every plane hit with a missile: brrrring, brrrring, on the great cash register in the homeland bank. It was all profit. It would have to be replaced. It was the perfect form of fantastically expensive and forced consumption, paid for by taxes.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

The evil is not in extremes It's in the aftermath

I'd like to punch out a really old lady. There'd be no repercussions.

You are only hurting yourself if you are being rude and unkind; it might not come back to you immediately or in the way you dished it out; but when it boomerangs back at you, it surely comes back in it's own different shape and sizes. Treat people the way you want to be treated. This is the only most important lesson in life, primarily to that; loving God, all the rest is just commentary.

Shit doesn't just happen in a void, there're ripples and consequences and even with all that there's still a whole fucking world going on, whether you're doing something or not.

We both know that the people who do bad things often had something bad done to them. It's a vicious cycle.

war's such a boomerang it's impossible to guarantee anyone's protection in the long run.

But these are other lives. Other variants of me. Not me me.' 'Yes, but while you are experiencing them, it is you who has to pay the consequences.

Those that are enemies to God's church are enemies to themselves, and, sooner or later, they will be made to see it.

Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

No more hanky-panky or you get more evil.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.

Anytime a son-in-law does something wrong, he can easily become a son-out-law.

Ill-fortune carries with it a stench and leaves a wide berth around its victims,

Eighty percent of an Agency brain is devoted to repercussions and possible futures, even when you're just thinking about moving in with your boyfriend.

Forty-seven generations before, the King of the Southerners had stolen a rhinoceros out of the Northern King's private zoo. (—That's it? —Wars have started for less. —But that's stupid. —Precisely.)