The more immediate the consequences, the more trustworthy the behavior.

Before analyzing the consequences of a fact; analyze its causes.

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Words have consequences.

I don’t know how you can characterize the tone at the top at this company as encouraging accountability and doing the right thing when nobody’s looking if Mr. Edmondson continues as CEO, and there appears...

The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn’t imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we’d done? It would ruin everything....

Whatever the politics of such a decision, it would be ordinary people who would suffer the consequences. Cutting aid now would undermine already fragile local institutions and only hurt ordinary people.

Actions always have consequences!

The consequences (of a civil war) for the people of Iraq would be catastrophic.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

For all the consequences of aggression, and also for aggression, I am blaming NATO,

Don’t make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.

Ukifanya maamuzi kubaliana na matatizo yake.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have ‘improved.

This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. ‘Forgive us our sins’ means “Let us continue in our iniquity.” It is one of the most pernicious of doctrines, and one of the...

Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and–and–partying doesn’t make them...

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

Coexistence measures are designed to ensure that GM crops can be grown alongside non-GM crops without negative economic consequences caused by accidental mixing of the two.

The [U.S.S.] Greeneville incident points out the unintentional consequences of non-professional people being in inherently hazardous operations,

We all have a certain knowledge about how the universe works. And when someone comes along and challenges that knowledge, we don’t know how to deal with it. We aren’t hardwired that way. It’s difficult...

Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made their choice that day, now they must pay the consequences.

Students are already suffering the consequences through probation, fines, criminal record and punishment through their own schools.

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

If you’re going to go hell for leather into that hairpin you are going to pay the consequences.

Daja doesn’t exactly need to be tested on whether she’s honorable or not.” “Doesn’t she? Don’t all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages....

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a...

It would be advisable to realize that we will eventually become whatever it is that we’ve created. And too often what we’ve created is a massive mess.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

People say that it’s the big decisions that are important… that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it’s the little choices that send your life...

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can’t now.

The whole world is now one vast uncontrollable experiment – the way it always was, Crake would have said – and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another...

And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles...

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

It was extremely quiet, thin volumes. The markets were sufficiently thin that if you wanted to do anything of consequence, either buying or selling, you probably would have moved the market.

The consequences are implied. If the result is annulled, you don’t get the medals for a result that doesn’t stand. If someone is not eligible, that athlete cannot have a valid result.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

It’s plain and simple. Where there has been evidence of music theft, there are consequences for illegal activity.

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...

You’re into her. You’re into the girl we came here to kill.

The most important thing in my life is to be the best mother that I can be to my daughter and two sons; full of blessings and love. I can guide them, pray for their...

The range of views now include a unified consensus that the failures are Iraq’s, that the consequences are Iraq’s and that the international community believes that Saddam Hussein is failing to comply with his required...

We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.

The consequences of this disaster for the national economy will be seen, I think, primarily in the third quarter and the fourth quarter and I think they’ll be temporary,

This is a serious offense; there are serious consequences and it deserves consideration and we wanted to look at every angle before making a decision.

You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m...

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

Only when people are aware of the consequences can sentencing be a deterring factor.

What makes this different from past mistakes is that there are some very long-term consequences here: higher energy costs, and the dislocation of thousands of people for months to come, and the rebuilding of a...

When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don’t give up!