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"Regardless of the circumstances in your life, we all make choices every single day, and the choices that you make determine where you land."
"Nikocado would embark on a journey that ended up costing his entire life and reputation."
"It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop."
"Imagine because of some obsession you have, your wife and children meet their untimely demise, and you could have stopped it, but you fail."
"What does it benefit a man if he gains the whole world and then loses himself at the end?"
"Congratulations, you went somewhere you weren't supposed to go, saw something you weren't supposed to see, and prevented a tidy resolution to a messy problem."
"Tiny, seemingly insignificant chance events can have massive consequences... that's the nature of the world we live in."
"You can't trash the body you've been given and not be punished by the universe, God, or whatever you want to say."
"Only call for a roll if there are meaningful consequences for failure."
"If you fail this, this is going to happen, and if you succeed, this is going to happen, particularly if the circumstances with the roll are obvious enough that the player would understand that."
"The fine line between gangster rapper and gang member must be walked carefully because just one wrong step can be the difference between fame and glory or an early grave."
"When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences."
"Telling the truth feels amazing or gets you in a lot of actual trouble, but the kind of trouble that you learn from."
"If you defeat her, you defeat yourself because now you're living with someone who's defeated and bitter."
"Feeling-based decisions have incredible unintended consequences."
"Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin."
"Your response has value, but your reaction has consequences."
"You cannot treat people this way without consequence. You cannot pretend you don't know the harm you cause."
"Avoidance of fear can become extremely pathological, resulting in all sorts of twisted addictions, lying, criminal schemes, dirty politics, abuse, various kinds of parasitic behavior, ideologies, and devilry of all sorts."
"Utopia is on the other side of the ocean of blood, and you never get there."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"Imagine what it says to other crazies who want to commit political violence that it's okay to go commit violence as long as you're on team Trump."
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
"Choices have consequences, and we are all given a choice."
"Leah asked a simple question: 'Where's Shelly?' She had no idea that one simple question would spark a chain reaction that would change everything."
"Mike Tyson made the quote that being online has made people comfortable with saying things that would get them consequences in real life."
"Are you gonna take the consequences of being real?"
"The price we pay for inauthenticity is huge."
"You're called upon to be everything you can be. Why? At least because the alternative is ending up in the position of Cain: rejected by man, woman, and God, then you're bitter, fratricidal, murderous, genocidal."
"The Lord told me to stay sober and not to get drunk because when I'm outside of my faculties, I make decisions that could turn into permanent consequences."
"The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion; who provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul."
"In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us."
"To cheat, rob, and defraud another brings lack, loss, and limitation to yourself."
"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."
"Neglect starts as an infection and, if you don't take care of it, becomes a disease."
"If you build a community on lies and false perceptions, you are going to have to live that way the entire time."
"I hope this has been a lesson learned for you."
"It is a cautionary tale of what those who act in a capitalist idea or an idea of oneself should and will face if they ever decide to depart from that they've known."
"I got the curse of uncleansable stench from drinking too many potions."
"He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm."
"Revenge does nothing but spread the misery around, multiplied like a virus bursting a cell open with a million terrible copies of itself."
"You might think you can bend the fabric of reality and treat people instrumentally, violate your conscience without cost, but you will pay the piper."
"You're not only hurting yourself; you're also hurting the people that you say you care about."
"Inflation, like alcoholism, the good effects come early... The hangover comes later."
"You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
"People [mess] up. Some mistakes you truly can't come back from and you have to face consequences."
"Not all bad actions have bad intentions. Sometimes the bad action or the thing that someone's trying to conceal is just a negative consequence of something that was otherwise positively intended."
"They killed everyone. Who, guilty, innocent, didn't matter. Who pulled the switch, all that death didn't fix anything."
"Ideologies that are out of touch with reality cause people to do things that are impractical, dangerous, and damaging."
"This entire system we've built is a complex of unintended consequences and Bitcoin is an immune response from the collective economy."
"Karma has a way of making people pay for their wrongdoings."
"History tells us that looking the other way in the face of such hostility will be a far more costly path."
"The longer the space between what happened and your next right acts of integrity, the bigger the pain."
"Don't live a life outside the will of God because to do so is live outside the blessing of God."
"The Russian aggression will come at an unprecedented price – politically, economically, and morally."
"You can't conduct these kinds of wars around the world, killing innocent people in the pursuit of a few bad guys, and pretend that it's not gonna come back to hurt you."
"There's going to be no accountability, no anything for these lives ruined."
"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
"If you're fuzzy-minded and demented enough because of your own lies that you're incapable of such judgment, you'll make the wrong decision and you'll regret being alive as a consequence."
"Everyone who remains silent when they have something to say pays for it."
"In a free market system, you're supposed to bear the consequences of the risks that you take."
"It's hardcore. If our hunger hits zero, we die."
"Sometimes you piss people off and you just have to deal with the ramifications of that."
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
"Every act of kindness matters, but every act of darkness is duly noted."
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences."
"Problems that are procrastinated on are only amplified."
"Ultra performers have realized that problems that are procrastinated on are only amplified."
"Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences."
"Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences."
"Whenever we do something Allah has prohibited, it's not Allah who loses; it is us who lose."
"If you outlaw house parties, you may keep the volume down, but an externality is that you may keep people from bonding."
"People suffered by their own hands and desires."
"We reap what we sow, more than we sow, later than we sow."
"What he goes on to do next is completely unforgivable."
"The Thomas Theorem states, 'If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.'"
"All right, if you guys don't do an in-between the legs 360 dunk, you will not like the consequences."
"We're physical beings in a physical universe. The facts around the universe dictate the consequences of our actions about what is or isn't in our best interest."
"Tell the truth, and let the chips fall where they will."
"I have never said or done anything in my life that I wasn't prepared to suffer the consequences for."
"He that gives to the poor shall not lack, but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse."
"They received eternal life as they had desired but are doomed to a fate more terrifying than death."
"If you push stuff down... eventually they're going to start bubbling up."
"Actions have consequences, and the consequences of any action should weigh on the mind of the individual before they commit to that action."
"If the farmer plants two seeds, one is in the form of corn and the other is nightshade, a deadly poison, waters and takes care of the land, what will happen is the land will bring forth whatever is planted in the land."
"He has to redeem himself; this is the price you pay for the things you've done."
"If you feel that you would be doing damage to your integrity, then you have to say what you have to say, do it carefully, and prepare for the consequences."
"There are drastic consequences based on your decision. In saving four people, you ended up killing dozens upon dozens, if not hundreds more."
"Magnifico has a point: granting every single wish could have untold consequences."
"It's not the intentions that matter; it's the impact."
"To say that everything is permitted is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with our consequences, whether glorious or tragic."
"Be careful when fighting monsters, lest you become one, for when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back."
"Actions have consequences, and you might not like the consequence."
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is death."
"At the end of the day, actions have consequences."
"The secondary issue is, if you do what they want, are they going to let them go?"
"Just because you're saved doesn't mean that decisions don't have consequences."
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you get to say things and then people aren't allowed to say anything about what you just said."
"Isolation, bullying, and drugs can all play their part and often lead to self-harm and sometimes suicide attempts."
"The president sitting in the Oval Office and considering bringing in active duty troops...you will have blood on the streets of Washington, D.C."
"God can forgive you, and you still have to go through the consequences."
"Karma does eventually eat back at you when you continue to do wrong things."
"Words spoken and deeds done are two things you can never get back."
"Do as you will, and know that you will be compensated and rewarded accordingly."
"The game doesn't let you reload your saves... it's all about sort of like living with those decisions."
"You're always aware of the consequences of your actions, and then when those things pay off, it's very interesting and satisfying, even if it's a bad thing."
"Choices matter, and you're not really sure which choices matter. You're always aware of the consequences of your actions."
"Your choices matter, and you're not really sure which choices matter. You're always aware of the consequences of your actions, and then when those things pay off, it's very interesting and satisfying, even if it's a bad thing."
"There's a fair at the beginning, there's all these things you can do at the fair, and there are things that are pay off right away, there's things that just kind of happen, and you're like, okay, and you sort of have... You don't realize you have agency over it."
"The most terrible things have been done in this world simply because of limited identity."
"If we hadn't been driving our economy with easy money, we wouldn't be having these problems now."
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."
"Social planning based on ideological principles massively backfires in practice."
"Hate speech can take many different forms, but no matter what it looks like, hate speech has real consequences."
"Never, and I mean never, delete your dad's Roblox account."
"The same thoughts always lead to the same choices, the same choices always lead to the same behaviors, the same behaviors create the same experiences."
"Being safe is the number one thing, or else you could end up in a place you don't want to end up."
"The path I must walk is soaked in blood. It's a path that can lead to madness, can snatch away one's future, and can even take one's life. And the pool of blood at my feet is growing larger. Those stains can never be washed clean."
"If the streets raise you, then the judge becomes your mother, and prison becomes your home."
"We make the choices, and then the choices in turn make us."
"Where you end up in life is often the result of a number of seemingly innocent choices, each appearing insignificant at the time, but all leading you in a single direction."
"The guilt had gotten to him, and he was planning on turning himself in."
"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."
"It would be this ceaseless pathological quest for improvement, this psychotic fixation on a reality unattainable, that would ultimately cast them into the deepest pits of depravity and damnation."
"The price that Ukraine is going to pay is unimaginable."
"Sooner or later, we must all face the consequences of our struggle for power."
"Evil doesn't have self-control. It always overplays its hand."
"Davy Jones is a seaborne horror of his own making, a man who shirked the duties given to him by a goddess he loved, transforming him into a creature of hatred and cruelty who knows no mercy for anyone who winds up in his clutches."
"The longer you wait to deal with problems, the worse they get."
"Whenever I punch a tree, I take damage. Are you serious?"
"Liberty for wolves means death for the sheep."
"Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." - Mike Tyson
"Choices matter, the ending is personal to you, and you live with the outcomes you create."
"At some point, there has to be a day of reckoning."
"Living freedom and having to live with the consequences of choices are essential."
"No good deed goes unpunished... from hero to zero because the very supreme scientific intelligent overlords have determined that having an unvaccinated paramedic is more dangerous than potentially not having enough paramedics."
"The decisions we make in the next 20-30 years are going to have enduring consequences of the sort that previous decisions did not."
"It was perfect, but the truth of this ending is tragic: her perfectionism literally killed her."
"Mistakes are made, and you need to pay the consequences."
"Lives are at stake when we lead with fear. Lives are at stake when we fear difference."
"One day you will have to answer for your actions."
"What you don't tackle when you're young will not disappear; they will show up time and time again."
"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."
"Burning cities down is the easiest way to destroy support for your movement."
"With freedom comes responsibility, and then there are consequences."
"Crossroads represent choice and consequence."
"Our daily actions have consequences that reverberate over time, throughout eons. We have an effect on the rest of human development."
"If you don't make a change, you will have back problems, you will have neck problems, you will feel sick."
"If you can't reach an agreement, this is how screwed you both are."
"Be straightforward about what you want; don't play games. If you play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of your own actions."
"Pleasure always comes at a cost. For the right kind of pleasure, you pay the price before you enter into it; for the wrong kind of pleasure, you pay the price after you have enjoyed it."
"The Internet has a way of coming back to bite you."
"Exponential growth is surprisingly unintuitive and it does, even though that might sound like a trick question, have real consequences."
"The classic example I often use is the person who invented chess...but doesn't realize that by the end, you've wiped out the whole rice population of India for 10,000 years."
"Your influence can land you in jail because at the end of the day, they have put people in jail before for their influence."
"This is a really good way for your niece to learn that actions have consequences."
"Isn't it amazing how when you do the right thing, good things happen?"
"You make choices. And every choice you make creates consequences."
"People are free to do what they want; they can come and go as they please. But then they fail to mention the fact that there are consequences for doing the thing they don't want you to do."
"By delaying recessions, you make the inevitable one way more damaging."
"An addiction is any behavior that one craves, finds some pleasure or relief in temporarily but has negative long-term consequences."
"If you can’t understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever those might be, and then infer the motivation from the consequences."
"I hope the cameras got that because you're going to jail, and you're losing your job."
"Even a small deviation from this ratio can quickly escalate to catastrophic events, a.k.a. big bada boom."
"This is a crisis within truth-seeking, within sense-making, and this has huge consequences for everyone in the rest of the world."
"Littering gold, trinkets and baubles, paid for in blood."
"Consequences, after all, are how we find meaning, both good and bad."
"You're born looking like your dad; you die looking like your decisions."
"And the spread of misinformation has real consequences."
"If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined."
"Games are about getting a player a very rich decision to make, and having a world where that decision is meaningful and leads to very interesting unpredictable outcomes."
"People who commit crimes need to face consequences, and that includes people who have come from other countries."
"I'll say what I want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it."
"If she is a brilliant con artist, what is the cost of her creation and is it worth the cost?"
"Time traveler sneezes; the timeline changes."
"The same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him."
"This combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
"Everyone's got to pay for what they've done wrong at some point; everyone's got to pay for their sins at some point. I guess mine caught up to me."
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
"You want to keep them in short-term thinking mode because you don't want them to think of the consequences."
"Two wrongs never make a right; they make more wrongs."
"There are many ways to change the world; few will make it better, many will make it worse."
"It's good to be fashionably late, but there is a point where you miss the party altogether."
"There's never been a less necessary war because you're going to end up where you started except a lot of people got killed."
"We once created kaijus only to destroy them to sell a product the world had no need for; now we fight the monsters of our own making not to thrive but to survive."
"This game is cursed. Once you open the portal, there will be grave consequences."
"I love that saying by Adele, 'You created a storm, now sit in its rain.'"
"It's like they say, once the genie is out of the bottle, that's it; there's no going back."
"He gave us free will, and with our free will, we made a bad decision."
"After recalling those memories, Cai Yue went to Wu Shang and apologized for her actions that had killed her grandparents."
"Unfortunately, it's a numbers game. If he continues to run through these red lights, eventually he's going to draw the wrong number, and somebody could get hurt."
"Absolutely lack of sleep can have serious consequences on our health and well-being."
"It is the stupidity of man to think that he can do evil, even some monstrous evil, and it won't have any backlash on himself."
"If you dare to be an independent voice in anything, you're going to get punished."
"Preserving the thing that would be preserved by us not doing that is not happening. We're losing that thing, and then we're going to blow ourselves up because we don't understand what the people on the other side are saying."
"If you put out negativity and drama, you're going to get negativity and drama back."
"Your life is a reflection of an exact reflection of the choices you have made."
"If you think good, good will follow; if you think evil, evil will follow."
"That's like letting the devil out of hell for good behavior."