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Quotes About Consequences

The life we have left behind us has a bad habit of stepping out of the shadows, of bringing complaints against us, of taking us to court.
~ Milan Kundera
For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake
~ Milan Kundera
I regimi criminali non furono creati da criminali ma da entusiasti, convinti di aver scoperto l'unica strada per il paradiso. Essi difesero con coraggio questa strada, giustiziando per questo molte persone. In seguito, fu chiaro che il paradiso non esisteva e che gli entusiasti erano quindi degli assassini.
~ Milan Kundera
The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from
~ Milan Kundera
Ése es uno de los curiosos secretos de la vida, el de que los inocentes cargan con la culpa en lugar de los culpables.
~ Milan Kundera
Un medico è una persona che accetta, per tutta la vita e con tutte le conseguenze, di occuparsi del corpo umano. E' questo consenso fondamentale (e non certo il talento o l'abilità) che gli permette il primo anno di università di entrare nella sala di anatomia e sei anni dopo di diventare medico.
~ Milan Kundera
Dar cel ce nu are grij? de trupul s?u devine mult mai u?or o victim? a acestuia.
~ Milan Kundera
As as result of your not knowing, this country has lost its freedom, lost it for centuries, perhaps, and you shout that you feel no guilt? How can you stant the sight of what you've done? How is it you aren't horrified? Have you no eyes to see? If you had eyes, you would have to put them out and wander away from Thebes!
~ Milan Kundera
The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which takes us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal
~ Milan Kundera
whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?
~ Milan Kundera
Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts.
~ Milton Friedman
I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
~ Patricia Briggs
People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.
~ Patricia Briggs
I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.
~ R.L. LaFevers
If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.
~ Rajneesh
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
~ Seneca the Younger
As Americans, we do love punishment.
~ Vanessa Grigoriadis
Love can make us do dreadful things.
~ Ann Aguirre
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
~ Ben Jonson
You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.
~ Charles Bukowski
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
~ Clarence Darrow
I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."
~ Drew Barrymore
Follow your love as far as it will take you. Whether it brings you to salvation or damnation.
~ Frederick Lenz