Quotes About Consequences

El problema de las palabras es que, una vez echadas, no pueden volverse solas a su dueño. De modo que a veces te las vuelven en la punta de un acero.

Una civilización que renuncia a la posibilidad de recurrir a la violencia en sus pensamientos y acciones, se destruye a sí misma. Se convierte en un rebaño de corderos, a degollar por el primero que pase.

However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been broken between them, definitively and forever. He did not know what, but there was the unmistakable noise of pieces shattering to the ground about him. The young woman would never forgive him for his cowardice -- or for his resignation.

Se alejan los tres discutiendo, de vuelta al rincón de los mapas. Y Pato alcanza a escuchar unas últimas palabras. —En la 42.ª División se fusila poco, Faustino. Os lo vengo diciendo y no me hacéis caso… Se escarmienta y se fusila poco.

Si el primer intento golpista había venido de la derecha, con el golpe frustrado del general Sanjurjo, el segundo, más grave y sangriento, vino de la izquierda, y se llamó revolución de Asturias. En octubre de 1934, mientras en Cataluña el presidente Companys proclamaba un Estado catalán que fue disuelto con prudente habilidad por el general Batet (años más tarde fusilado por los franquistas, que no le perdonaron esa prudencia)

Por su parte, Largo Caballero, líder del ala socialista radical, había sido aún más explícito e irresponsable: Si ganan las derechas, tendremos que ir a una guerra civil declarada.

Pues eso… Todos hicieron bien y mal, y eso mero es la vida.

Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to lose. At my age and in my profession, prudence is more than just a virtue, it's an instinct.

los descuidos matan y los descuidados mueren.

But then a hair from a quim has condemned far more men than the noose ever has.

Una vida, la suya, que tal vez algún día acabara por pasarle la factura de modo implacable, toc, toc, toc, señor Falcó, le toca a usted abonar los gastos. Hasta aquí hemos llegado. Fin de la fiesta. En

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.

Some things come with their own punishments.

All the good works gathered in a thousand ages, Such as deeds of generosity, And offerings to the Blissful Ones— A single flash of anger shatters them.

You are playing with fire. You just don't know that yet. You might burn and there will be no smoke. At all!

You will never learn to steal a car unless you leave keys inside..!

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

Greed can destroy so much," Sir Montague nodded.

Too many people in the U.S. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the killing our people without ever having to look at the corpses

I wondered how all those people in the states who tried to sound tough, saying that the u.s. should go in here, bomb there, take over this, attack that, would feel if they knew that they were indirectly responsible for babies being burned to death.

Later that day, Ray Brown and Evelyn came to see me. Ray was in a jovial mood, laughing his head off. "Well, you've really done it this time. I don't know what we're going to do with you. His honor is going to give you a strong reprimand for getting pregnant during his trial.

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.