Consequences Quotes

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

You are the sum total of your choices.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

I believe time wounds all heels.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

A lie cannot live.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Foul deeds will rise,Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.