Quotes About Consequences

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

To have lied is to have suffered.

When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly.

He was not to perceive that of two men engaged in an action so hideous, he who permits the thing is worse than the man who does the work, because he is the coward!

À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...] Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.

great events have incalculable results.

in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a mournful moment is that in which society withdraws itself and gives up a thinking being forever.

The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.

A beautiful woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanour. All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity.

Los grandes acontecimientos tienen consecuencias incalculables

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

But no sword is simple. Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

This demonstrates the novel truth—that great events have incalculable consequences.

A wrecked marriage scares everyone. It's like a rock tossed into a still blue pond; the ripples go on and on.

She is angry. And angry people make mistakes in war and die.

Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal.

She thought about the chain of choices that had led her here. A ten-degree shift anywhere along the way and everything would be different.

Forgiveness doesn't matter, does it, Dean? When a thing is done, it's done. You can't unring a bell.

People had called Isabelle impetuous for as long as she could remember. And then rash and, most lately, reckless. In the past year, she had grown up enough to see the truth of it. From earliest memory, she had acted first and thought about consequences later. Perhaps it was because she'd felt alone for so long. No one had ever been her sounding board, her best friend. She hadn't had someone with whom to strategize or work through her problems.

The modern world no longer believed in senseless tragedy. Bad things couldn't just happen to people; someone had to pay.