Quotes About Repercussions

The very fact that she had been in the grotto and viewed the collection would have catastrophic repercussions for herself and the throne. Married women did not conduct themselves in such a fashion, and married princesses with Puritanical mothers were held to a higher standard still.

I knew what had caused this. It was Roger's sudden desire for children. That bastard's brain waves had infiltrated my scrotum, reconnecting my vas deferens and causing me to impregnate my wife, allowing him to vicariously experience the joys of new fatherhood. I was going to kick his ass the next time I saw him.

Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.

It can be a little scary. Like one time I posted a link to NPR because I thought it was interesting, and it took down their Web site.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

Absolutely, when you talk about the embarrassment that I caused in 2007 for myself, my family, the NBA, it was embarrassing then, and it's as embarrassing now seeing it play out in a movie 10 years later. It's tough to watch it. Every time I watch it, I cringe through the whole thing.

Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.

Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.

the damage that had been done was probably deeper than anyone imagined

Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

We don't forget, Rachel, and it's not as if it was our ancestors who were betrayed. It was us.

You can't forget anything," I said, watching the words vanish into nothing. "And even if you do, it always comes back to bitch-slap you in the morning.

You go down that canyon and kill a bunch of people doing their jobs, and later other people come along and find the bodies. They'll hate you forever. Even if you do take over Mars someday they'll still hate you, and do anything they can to screw things up. And that's all you will have accomplished, because they'll replace those miners quick as that.

It's stupid because it makes the assumption that your enemies are weaker than you, and will do what you want if you murder a few of them. But people aren't like that. I mean, think about how it will fall out. You go down that canyon and kill a bunch of people doing their jobs, and later other people come along and find the bodies. They'll hate you forever. Even if you do take over Mars someday they'll still hate you, and do anything they can to screw things up.

Apparently, he'd killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore's population. Doing my part for the environment.

He'd given her the mother of all hangovers - a run-in with the wrath of grapes.

Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

No one has escaped Karma. She catches you on the same road that you take to avoid her.

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

career prospects of employees who report corporate malfeasance are so dismal that it is surprising that people whistleblow at all.

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad ' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

There are so many things that reside outside of a man's control, son. True courage is not measured in battles won. It is finding the right cousre of action and following it, no matter the repercussions