Quotes About Consequences

She found herself wondering what the world would have been like if Shemyaza and the others had never disobeyed the laws of Kharsag and taken human wives.

I want you, Daniel, to be with me. Taste the fatal apple; I have held it for eternity. It is humanity's curse, but if you want the knowledge, you can't avoid plucking the forbidden fruit.

I forced myself to develop a shield of passionless dedication, rather than pander the possible consequences of our quest. It helped to think we were engaged in a holy mission, and that each soulscaper we encountered was simply expanding the knowledge we needed to save our people.

Barbara Eager, Othman knew, was a ripe fruit for plucking. Still he did not intend to gather the harvest himself. That would be too easy.

I want to make love to you properly." "Well you can't, and you've only yourself to blame.

Being a friend to me might set you on a path you'll regret.

The funny thing about saying something in anger is that once it has been said, it cannot be unsaid. The second it's floating in the ether, it's there forever. Hanging there, like a sword.

I'm sure that in Germany people also took an oath of secrecy. We know what that eventually led to. If it works that way with us, the sanctions for breaking the secrecy are nothing compared to the sanctions there could be if we're silent. All

Much as I hate to say it, the Second World War did end the Great Depression. I think we solve our problems by killing our boys and others.

This is human. It happened before. The Spanish, in the Inquisition, under God, destroyed an entire population. What about the Albigenses ? It can happen again. We are all good people, but if we are led a little too far, we are going to believe everything we are told. We are ordinary people, who can also be weapons for evil Hitlers.

It is not against the law to be a nincompoop. If so, I would have a rap sheet as long as my arm.

People who don't think the rules apply to them, Kit was beginning to learn, are surprised and offended when others don't recognize and honor their exemption.

Our society routinely steals from the future.

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power.

I reminded myself that I did not come from a place where mind games were a prerequisite for survival to such an extreme degree, a place where the slightest act of rebellion could have unimaginable consequences. Slowly

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Oh yes, I want to play with 'Samson'. Come to Delilah.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

A criminal history was like a credit card with interest—so what if you paid off the balance, the interest still kept accruing. And accruing and accruing and accruing.

If little girls will forget to be little, and take it upon them to become young ladies, they must bear the consequences, one of which is, that we can follow their fortunes no longer.