J. C. Ryle Quotes

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.

Nothing annoys me more than uninformed people not considering the effects of what they say.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.