Quotes about Consequences

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

When we waste our time, our time wastes us.

Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

You're too late. She's my wife. No, she's your widow. His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.

Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.