Quotes about Consequences

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying in the face of God. We cannot play God. If we continue down this path of destruction, we will be met at the gates by our own doom.

Actions have consequences.

I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.