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Consequence Quotes


"Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward."


"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."


"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help."


"Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present."


"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."


"There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use."


"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."


"The only thing destroying us is ignorance."


"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."


"Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need."



"One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away)."


"If it's the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I'm driving down a long road with a short bridge."


"A fool's bolt is soon shot."


"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."



"Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness."


"An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes."


"We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later."


"Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument."


"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."


"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."


"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."


"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."


"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."


"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."


"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."


"The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications."


"A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention."


"Where am I? you ask. Where you are is where the things you've denied worshipping have taken you."


"Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down."


"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."


"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."


"Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we've created."


"Be sure your sin will find you out...Be sure."


"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."


"If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year."


"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."


"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"


"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."
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