Consequences Quotes

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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 in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.

~ Michelle Hodkin

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

~ Ken Levine

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

~ Aleatha Romig

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

There are always consequences to the truth.

~ Patti Callahan Henry

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

~ Jim George

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

~ Anne Holm

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.

~ Daniel Clausen

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?” as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.

~ L.j. Smith

What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.

~ T.f. Hodge

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

~ Bret Easton Ellis

There are several grave consequences that come with lack of knowledge, the paramount is destruction.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

~ Charlaine Harris

Sorry” we all say “Sorry” for the wrong things we say and do. But do we always think about the people we love dearly who we say hurtful things to? I don’t think so because if we had think about it sorry wouldn't have become such a popular word today. Sometimes we say so much and act immature as adult. We didn't take the time to realize how much hurt and pain we put that individual in we never took the time to think of the reaction, the feelings and the consequence that we might have to face if what we do turns out to be a matter of life and death.!!!

~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!

~ Kemi Sogunle

Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings.

~ Suzy Kassem

One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than one place at the same time until it is observed, at which point there seems to be a random choice made about where the particle is really located. Scientists currently believe that this randomness is genuine, not just caused by a lack of information. Repeat the experiment under the same conditions and you may get a different answer each time.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.

~ Sarah J. Maas

I imagine the game wouldn’t be the same in the light,” Scarlett answered. “People think no one sees all the nasty things they do in the dark. The foul acts they commit, or the lies they tell as part of the game. Caraval takes place at night because you like to watch, and see what people do when they think there are no consequences.

~ Stephanie Garber

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

~ Eric Metaxas

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.

~ Tom Robbins

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Liars are highly unlikely to admit their lies, never mind apologize for the hurt they’ve caused. Liars don’t genuinely apologize. Deceit has become their full-out lifestyle. They are centered on themselves with no thoughts of the consequences of their lies. In cowardly style, they tell more lies to try and cover their tracks. They are not good at admitting they actually have shortcomings.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.

~ Max Weber

A guy never has a right to force a woman to have sex with him under any circumstances. She should be able to say no at any point, and he must honor that denial. It is criminal that so many girls and women are raped today. Fully 60 percent of all females who lose their virginity before age fifteen say that their first sexual experience was forced! That is a tragedy with far-reaching consequences.

~ James C. Dobson

If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ won't be anywhere near my solar system.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS.

~ C.g. Jung

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.

~ Raymond E. Feist