Quotes About Consequences

We are the fruits harvested of the choices we plant.

Bad magic happens" Ash Redfern

Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills in his jeans pocket. He was quite happy to have sent that particular home boy to hell.

I don't think you understand," he said. "I'm going to have you, at any cost. Any cost, Jenny, even if you have to suffer on the way. If I can't force you, I'll persuade you— and I can be very persuasive.

Wait." Stefan's voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. "What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?" "He will not kill me," Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. "He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.

Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.

They understand NOW," agreed Charles pointedly. "But what happens in a little while when the effects wear off and they remember everything except the reasons why they did it? They're going to be telling their parents they gave their car away to some kids who made them smell a leaf. And what do they say then?

For a moment Eustace contemplated an existence spent in pleasing himself. How would he set about it? He had been told by precept, and had learned from experience, that the things he did to please himself usually ended in making other people grieved and angry, and were therefore wrong. Was he to spend his life in continuous wrong-doing, and in making other people cross? There would be no pleasure in that. Indeed what pleasure was there, except in living up to people's good opinion of him?

Few men know all the ill they do.

Násilí se nikomu nevyplácí. S tím se m?že vysta?it jen krátkou dobu, ale d?jiny se jím psát nedají. žijeme v civilizovaném sv?t?, v Evrop?, ve dvacátém století

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: "You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter."

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

All empires fail. They overreach, spread too thin, collect one enemy too many. They're gnawed at from within by corruption, greed, betrayal.

I've seen other universes. I've been to them. And I destroyed them.

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don't really know what you're going to get.

Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.

So much to rue, but to what end? All unlived lives cancel one another out.

You can't atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?" "The dead," she said. "And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you'd think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.

La clemencia engendra clemencia, igual que las masacres devienen en masacres.

Push the chair in too quickly or too slowly, or else sit too soon or too heavily, and misadventure ensues, perhaps even an unintended baptism of the hindquarters.

For what is living but a chain of impossible choices? Every choice casts a shadow, and sometimes those shadows stalk your dreams.

Feltetted-e valaha magadnak a kérdést, hogy a szörnyek csinálják a háborút, vagy a háború csinálja a szörnyeket?

Har du någonsin frågat dig om det är monster som skapar krig eller kriget som skapar monster? (s. 115).