Quotes About Consequences

That way if they were disappointed or disgusted with her, she'd only have to live with that reaction for a couple of months.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

History is more of a tragedy than it is a morality tale.

The church has made efforts to apologize for all this, but its complicity with fascism is an ineffaceable mark on its history, and was not a short-term or a hasty commitment so much as a working alliance which did not break down until after the fascist period had itself passed into history.

justified in the name of "security" like almost every cowardly idiocy before and since

La vida es azarosa e injusta, y el pecado, por muy original que sea, queda generalmente impune.

British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

Lucsly glanced back. "That's just it. I'm not supposed to know." He paused. "A history of race hatred . . . a self-serving demagogue stirring up new resentments for his own ends . . . you don't need time travel to predict where that's heading. It's up

If I be cruel and grow tyrannous, Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late.

FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell, Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.

Charlie Asher: I accidently shagged a monk last night. Minty Fresh: Sometimes, in times of crisis, that shit cannot be avoided.

Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right?

I accidentally shagged a monk last night." "Sometimes, in times of crisis, that shit cannot be avoided.

We will bring your guilt as well. You wouldn't have escaped it anyway. It is a parent's gift.

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.

On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well, which brings us back to the one protection we have against demagogues, tricksters, and the madness of crowds, and our surest guide through the uncertain shoals of life: clear and reasoned thinking. Logic will never fail you, unless you're unaware of—or deliberately ignore—the consequences of your deeds.

No olvides, Eragon, que nadie se ve a sí mismo como un villano y son pocos los que toman decisiones sabiendo que se equivocan.

La gente ha la fastidiosa abitudine di ricordarsi le cose che non dovrebbe

El peligro no justifica un acto irresponsable, por grave que sea la situación. Arya