Quotes About Consequences

Revenge. I swear, is there a more pointless, destructive, unsatisfying motive in all the world?

Un hombre que dedica toda su atención a hacer el bien y ninguna a las consecuencias es un hombre peligroso.

There was a red stain across Gorst's eye above the flatbow bolt. But the other one rolled up towards Leo. It seemed, somehow, he still had that smile. 'Do you believe...' His voice sounded much like anyone else's, whispering. 'In redemption?' 'I don't fucking care.' 'You're young. Give it time.

Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.

A legszörny?bb átok, ha az ember megkapja, amit akar.

Szörnyen vékony a határvonal aközött, ha valakit vezérként emelnek a magasba, meg aközött, ha akasztott emberként kerül a többiek fölé.

That's the trouble with ambition. It's easy to forget, when you're always looking upwards, that the only way down from the dizzy heights is a long drop.

Leo saw now that his father had been wrong. It's after the battle. That's when a man finds out who he truly is. He was no hero. He never had been. He was a fool. A great bloated tower of vanity. It had got his friends, his allies and hundreds who'd followed him killed. Now it would get him killed, too.

Vengeance is never halfway as simple, or halfway as sweet, as you think it's going to be.

Once you set your mind on killing, it is hard to choose the number of the dead.

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but… not by much.

Once the killing starts, it rarely sticks to those who deserve it

On the right side of history, maybe. Vick snorted. The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters. That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.

It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she'd left that Lowlander's arm, and it was no one's fault but her own. She shouldn't have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.

He built the Empire, yet he was also the principal in its destruction. A great man, in so many ways, but great men have great faults... One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once... Unless there are no other choices.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.' Heinrich Heine

But far as I can tell it ain't that simple. Right things, wrong things, well… it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others. And once you're chief, you can't just do what's good for you, or those you love. You have to find what's best for most. Worst for fewest.

If you wait till they seem bad, you've waited way too long.

War?' 'It's when a fight gets so big almost no one comes out of it well.

Downside was frowning at the Shanka corpses, weighing his axe and wondering where to start. "Never thought o' myself as a man who fills sacks with heads." "No one sets off in that direction," said Clover, puffing out his cheeks one more time. "But before you know it, there you bloody are.

Is it gold?' asked the lad. 'Copper,' she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.

Funny," said the Nail, back in his floppy slouch already. "Barbs don't sting so much from a man you can slap whenever you please.

Once your hands get bloody it ain't so easy to get 'em clean.