Quotes About Consequences

Campbell's Law, which says that any metric used to determine social decision-making will become corrupted by people who want to affect those decisions.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

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Julian Hawthorne

Everyone has regrets. Some are just more life changing than others, and some go beyond a single moment of carelessness. Some regrets are born out over a period of months, or even years of misbehavior, because you didn't have enough self-awareness or life experience to recognize the error you were making at the time.

She remembered what he'd said in the hotel, that life was just a series of moments, and though she still did not agree with the idea that consequences played no part, she gave in to the possibility that there might be some wisdom in what he was trying to show her- that one had to enjoy life day by day and seize opportunities when they presented themselves, because one never knew when it could all end.

I do beg your pardon, sir, but when a gentleman like you behaves inappropriately- leading an impressionable young lady to believe there is some genuine affection between you- that gentleman must accept the consequences of his actions.

Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.

She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.

It's actually the fourth,' I say, 'if you count getting fired from CopyMax.' 'Which we do not.' Jo slit-eyes me. She scoops up a handful of Fritos and tosses them into her mouth. I try to keep a straight face, but it's hard when I add, 'Fired for copying your naked butt and gluing it on your boss's chair.

You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one person, you can betray a whole world.

what harm could come from just talking to someone? I learned never to ask that question again because inevitably you'll get an answer and usually not the one you want.

Strange, Andras thought, that war could lead you to involuntarily forgive a person who didn't deserve forgiveness, just as it might make you kill a man you didn't hate.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

Nos parece que no se puede atribuir un apodo cualquiera a alguien que deberá absorberlo y sufrirlo como un atributo durante toda su vida.

Wer als Kleiner raucht, kriegt als Großer Tuberkulose.

De pronto me alegra poder pensar que los críticos son mucho más necesarios de lo que yo mismo estoy dispuesto a reconocer [...] porque los creadores [...] son incapaces de extraer las consecuencias dialécticas de su obra, postular los fundamentos y la trascendencia de lo que están escribiendo o improvisando.

Qué me quedaba por hacer aparte de la música y los libros, sino llevar a las cosas a las amargas consecuencias finales más que previsibles, a menos que hubiera otra cosa, un atajo, una encrucijada en alguna parte, una última salida que me diera lo mío sin hacer pedazos lo de los demás

Usted se lo buscó, amigazo. –Y usted está borracho, Horacio.

En nombre de los otros tiempos se hacen las grandes macanas en éstos

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

She should have kept running too but she beelined for home instead. Can you believe it? Like everybody in this damn story, she underestimated the depth of the shit she was in.