Quotes About Consequences

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

But sins must not be overlooked simply because the sinner is skilled.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

You want your decisions taken away from you so you won't be responsible for your own actions?

Such regrets are of no practical use. I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness

You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.

you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

What good is it to throw yourself in front of a steamroller out of moral principles and then be crushed flat like a sock emptied of its foot?

In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.