Quotes about Consequences

No dumping allowed. Trespassers will be violated." I used to laugh every time I drove by the sign. This wasn't a homemade sign. It was a professionally made metal sign posted by a city in Oklahoma (I won't tell you which one). It was even the fancy kind with fluorescent letters that could be easily seen at night.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down.

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape, Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.

Undine Spragg—how can you? her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid bell-boy had just brought in.

At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.

The Fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest.

Sin is not rational.

The idea of sin being able to deceive us, suppressing truth so that we believe a lie, should send shivers down our spines. It is one thing to deceive other people. That is scary enough. It is even more frightening when we realize that each lie we tell leaves us more self-deceived. All practiced sin teaches us to believe lies. WE don't often consider the boomerang effect of our deception. In the end it will get us.

Addiction is bondage to the rule of a substance, activity, or state of mind, which then becomes the center of life, defending itself from the truth so that even bad consequences don't bring repentance, and leading to further estrangement from God.

We are connected to things that have been forced on us, such as the sins of others