Quotes About Consequences

There's no denying the horror of the atrocities they inflicted, but they think they had just cause. That's rubbish, of course. All you get from an eye for an eye is a lot of people stumbling around in the dark.

Anyone who braves the world sooner or later feels the consequences of it. —Lady Elizabeth Melbourne

It's one thing to protect yourself," Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. "That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?" I shrugged. "A seven-figure civil suit?

There's no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It's always someone else's fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

I can't kill someone! You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher. But that was family! And I didn't kill him.

And then, little by little, the reality of what I had just done sank in: I had just killed my boyfriend's dad!

Detention. That's what you get at the Junipero Serra Mission Academy when you sucker punch your stepbrother on school grounds and a teacher happens to notice.

When Louie is upset with us for, say, forgetting to feed him, he eats any socks he might find lying around.

All I can say is, be careful what you wish for. It just might come true.

I once saw her throw a Juicy Fruit wrapper on the ground in Central Park. She doesn't even feel guilty about littering.

If there are three words in the English language worse than Got a minute? they can only be About last night...

Beautiful girls who love too much, as Lindsay appeared to have done, often meet unpleasant ends.

Costis bowed stiffly. "I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

If she pardons people because she loves them, someday someone that she loves will betray her and all of Attolia with her. A queen must make sacrifices for the common good.

You don't know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should have you tortured and killed. What were you thinking?

The king's attendants remained, digesting the fact that their helpless, inept king had promised his wife to destroy the house of Erondites in six months and had done it in ninety-eight days.

Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.

Cowardice has its own rewards

A bad boy can be very good for a girl.

Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed.

But even if we're together, it will only kill Jack. -Sky If he will take the risk to be with you, who are you to tell him what to do with his life? -Allegra

Mimi walked out of church, knowing that if she ever saw Jack again, she would have to kill him.

Never ever, ever make excuses for a scoundrel.

it wasn't Tori's fault that she was friends with a killer. But another part of her, a cold and dead part, said it was necessary. Tori had a role to play in all of this; it was for the greater good.