Consequences Quotes

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences.

Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor.

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by the size of the seed, so the consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was […]