Stephen King Quotes

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

The chickens have come home to roast.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

I have always believed that what goes around comes around.

If you do something, expect consequences.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

They sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Never scorn the connection between deeds and their results

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

The toe you step on today may be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Some things come with their own punishments.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.