Quotes About Consequences

There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.

I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.

A mí me dijo que tener un arma equivale a invitar al otro a que te dispare

she'd already gotten me in trouble once today: she had taught me to write and it was all her fault.

Come hanno potuto, come hanno potuto fare una cosa simile? Non lo so, ma l'hanno fatto. L'hanno fatto prima e l'hanno fatto stasera e lo faranno ancora, e quando lo fanno... pare che piangano solo i bambini

You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies. You just try to tell 'em, 'Look, be good. Behave yourselves. If you're good and mind us, you can get a lot out of life, but if you don't mind us, we will give you nothing and take away what we've already given you.

don't see why you touched it in the first place," Mr. Link Deas was saying. "You've got everything to lose from this, Atticus. I mean everything.

You see, don't you," said Aunt Alexandra, "what comes of things like this. Don't say I haven't told you.

You are using frightful means to justify ends that you think are for the good of the most people. Your ends may well be right—I think I believe in the same ends—but you cannot use people as your pawns, Atticus. You cannot.

What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk, he wouldn't be as hard as some men at their best. There are just some kind of me who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Biliyor musun, bir cumartesi günü birkaç tanesi ormandan ç?k?p geldi, buradan geçerken bana çiçeklerimin ve benim cehenneme gideceÄŸimizi söyledi. Çiçeklerinin de mi? Evet, hanfendi. Benimle birlikte onlar da cehennemde yanacakm??.

For a number of reasons, said Atticus. The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again. (Lee 177)

Sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.

Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. 'War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.

If something came out of the deal, it couldn't make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn't have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.

Cerrar los ojos no va a cambiar nada. Nada va a desaparecer simplemente por no ver lo que está pasando. De hecho, las cosas serán aún peor la próxima vez que los abras. Sólo un cobarde cierra los ojos. Cerrar los ojos y taparse los oidos no va a hacer que el tiempo se detenga.

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can't erase the history that produced them

I couldn't remember a thing I'd ever done to make her hate me that much. But sometimes, without even realizing it, we trample on people's feelings, hurt their pride, make them feel bad.

He who burns his bridges better be a darn good swimmer

Friends are made my many acts and lost by only one.