Quotes About Consequences

You might even ask me to apply my 'theory' to myself and explain what damage I had suffered a long way back and what its consequences might be: for instance, how it might affect my reliability and truthfulness. I'm not sure I could answer this, to be honest.

I can see there might be a positive side to this wilful averting of the eye: ignoring the bad things makes it easier for you to carry on. But ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that bad things never happen. You are always surprised by them. It surprises you that guns kill, that money corrupts, that snow falls in winter. Such naivety can be charming; alas, it can also be perilous.

I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies of her splayed beneath me or arched above me. Daily intimacy made me proud of knowing about make-up, clothes policy, the feminine razor, and the mystery and consequences of a woman's periods. I found myself envying this regular reminder of something so wholly female and defining, so connected to the great cycle of nature.

Nor did any of them apply to Adrian. In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning: that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is a moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning: that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is a moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat

Dingen die eenmaal weg zijn, kunnen niet teruggehaald worden, dat wist hij nu wel. Een klap, eenmaal uitgedeeld, kan niet worden ingetrokken. Woorden, eenmaal uitgesproken, kunnen niet onuitgesproken worden gemaakt. We mogen verdergaan alsof er niets verloren, niets gedaan, niets gezegd is, we mogen beweren het allemaal te vergeten, maar ons diepste wezen vergeet niet, omdat we voor altijd veranderd zijn.

What if Susan, from religious or moral scruple, had discouraged his interest, and taught him nothing more than tactical astuteness when playing mixed doubles? What if Macleod had continued to hold a sexual interest in his wife? None of this might have happened. But given that it had, then if you wanted to attribute fault, you were straight away into prehistory, which now, in two of their three cases, had become inaccessible.

Many artists live with the shadow version of themselves. Unawareness of how things might have been if they have done this and not that. If life had made this choice for them rather than that. The road not taken remains at the back of the mind. For some their shadow exists as an external presence, for others an inner haunting.

Sometimes the only choices we have, even the ones made out of love, isolate us.

Nick? I'm still here, Laurant. -Did you tell Tommy we slept together? No, but you just did. He's standing right here. She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.

In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could hear, she said, I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.

Why? Why did you do this to me? He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too. That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why? He repeated on a sob? Why did you- You wouldn't take me to New York His mouth dropped open NEW YORK? he shouted. You did all this because I wouldn't take, you to New York!

It must be sheer hell for you to be cursed with such a pretty boy's face, he drawled. The agony of finding a different woman in your bed every night must wear you thin. I don't know where you get your stamina with this terrible burden you bear. The muscle in Ramsey's jaw flexed, which pleased Brodick considerably. We know you've had as many women in your bed as I have, Ramsey snapped. But I meant what I said. There are more important matters to discuss.

Don't you want to know what happened?" Jack asked Alec as he tilted his head toward the man he'd killed. "I figured he didn't get your order right.

We're all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It's the way of things.

It is frightening, how one lie is just the first strand in an ever increasing fabric of untruth. And once this fabric is woven, it is very hard to unravel.

At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

Too much power made people arrogant and unfeeling. It turned them cruel. It blinded them to right and wrong.

Power and wealth too often made folk lose their good judgement. It made them cruel and unthinking.

He'd lost his temper with Erisa once too often, and look what had happened. The stupid woman had tried to run from him, and when she fell she'd killed his son as well as herself.

The gung-ho spirit overrode caution, as ignorance triumphed over reason.

No good comes of cheating your mother to have some fun.

I reached under the seat for my radar detector, which is thoroughly and completely illegal in the state of Connecticut, and floored it.