Quotes about Negative Consequence

George Peppard

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

Glover Teixeira

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

Plato

…would…before he could in any way benefit his friends or the state, come to an untimely end without doing any good to himself or others.

Henry David Thoreau

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Greg Gutfeld

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.

Mo Farah

President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

William Shakespeare

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

Adam Peaty

What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.

James M. Curley

Every time you do a favor for a constituent, you make nine enemies and one ingrate.

See Louis XIV for an earlier similar idea.

Publilius Syrus

An evil gain equals a loss.

Dick Gephardt

Never in history has so much been done, so fast, for so few, at the expense of so many.

This was a clever paraphrase of Winston Churchill's famous quotation.

CM Punk

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Theodore Dreiser

Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.

George Eliot

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Cher

It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.