Quotes About Consequences

To call things in the past inexorable makes more things in the future inexorable. To tell people they're not to blame for past mistakes is to make future mistakes more likely. The truth is hardly guaranteed to set us free.

Cheating on research is as bad as cheating on patient care. No! It's worse. In research you can end up hurting many more people.

People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end.

You can't play in shit and not get some on you.

sometimes there are no choices but poor ones.

The only lie I ever told her was my undoing, and hers, and the stablemaster's. Such is the power of a lie given to one you love.

Do you think you're taking Etta out of here?" "Yes," Kennit called over his shoulder up the sairs. "What about all these dead men?" she shrieked after him as they strode out of her house. "Those you may keep," Kennit replied.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.

Fault has no place in the greater scheme of things, little one. Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.

As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead

Nenhum inimigo, bem sabia, é mais temível do que aquele que ferimos gravemente.

Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I

She fell silent, overcome at what humans, in their ignorance, had done.

Is there anything more chilling than looking at a righteous fifteen-year-old and realizing he has the power to unravel your entire life?

Why must love cost anything? Why does need have to be mixed up with love? Why can't people be like butterflies, coming together in bright sunshine and parting while the day is still bright?' 'Because they are people, not butterflies. To pretend that people can come together, love, and then part with no pain or consequences is more false a role than pretending to be a proper Trader's daughter.

Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool's vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.

I haven't forgiven anything. And I don't believe in the "us" you think I might take vengeance on. You didn't do this to me. But even if you had, killing you would not undo it.

Be damned for a ram as deeply as a lamb.