Quotes About Consequences

Every task that requires completion today, left undone, turns into a double task for tomorrow.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.

He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and was grateful for it. And resentful of it. How helpless women were. The pawns of men. To be tripped up and pitched headlong into the dirt by men, and then to be picked up by them and dusted off and restored to uprightness. But that was the way of the world.

Ah, what we do to destroy ourselves, Philippa thought. Yet so many of us do it.

Miss Daisy Morrison, behaving so scandalously on her very first public appearance among the beau monde, would not easily be forgiven. But of course a

No good can come of it, you know. He will only break your heart.

When you allow a young lady in your care to stumble on the ice and . . . sprain her ankle, it is clearly understood by all her relatives and friends that you are obliged to make amends by marrying her.

Guilt can eat away at you and destroy the future as well as the past.

is the epitome of unfairness that many people would choose the comfortable lie over the uncomfortable truth and, in this case, would brand you as the archvillain instead of him.

was made up of choices, all of which, even the smallest, made all the difference to the rest of one's life.

Will you have regrets later, love? I do not think I could bear that.

This is all a joke to you, is it not? . . . It is not a joke. Your whole future happiness is at stake.

After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]

To leave the apple unpicked—that was sin.

This much is sure: if Kate hadn't gone back to Doc Holiday on the afternoon of June 10th, 1878, you never would have heard of him. You wouldn't know the names of Wyatt Earp, or any of his brothers. The Clantons and McLaurys would be utterly forgotten. And Tombstone would be nothing more than an Arizona ghost town with an ironic name. Too late now.

Choose your enemies wisely, for you will become them.

What happened at the trestle?" "Edward fell," I said. "He almost drowned." Andrew grinned. "It's a pity he didn't.