Quotes About Consequences

life, after all, is simply a series of little lives, each of them lived one day at a time, and every single one of those days has choices and consequences.

You made the decision, not I, and every decision has consequences. You have to take responsibility for the choices you make.

Les gens parlent de la vérité comme si c'était l'élixir miracle pour tous les problèmes de la vie. Je suis là depuis assez longtemps pour savoir que ce n'est pas le cas, et que parfois la vérité peut faire plus de mal que de bien.

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

If the price you have to pay for a sin is so high that you end up wanting to kill yourself and committing suicide is an even worse sin, then Someone's done his sums wrong. Someone's overcharging.

She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

I have tried to live with women who share a similar sensibility to mine, with predictably disastrous consequences, but the opposite route seems every bit as hopeless.

Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he'd made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody seemed to mind, much. Dennis had spent an awful lot of time not making an ass of himself, and he didn't have anything to show for it. The

It's not reading and whatever that makes you good or bad. It's whether you rape people, or get addicted to crack and go out mugging.

And when he stared at the sum total of his crimes on the screen, it seemed to him that they didn't amount to a whole lot. He hadn't killed anyone. He looked again: there must be something missing. Nope. He'd done twenty years for crimes he hadn't committed.

In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn. That's OK; he's a songwriter, after all, and he needs simple choices like that in his songs. But nobody ever writes about how it is possible to escape and rot—how escapes can go off at half-cock, how you can leave the suburbs for the city but end up living a limp suburban life anyway. That's what happened to me; that's what happens to most people.

in the same way that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't really claim that shooting presidents wasn't like him at all. Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

Once again, Marcus was left with the feeling that Ellie didn't have to do what she had just done, and that she had brought the trouble she was in upon herself. He was tired of it. It wasn't real, and there was enough real trouble in the world without having to invent things.

If your hands were not clean, your good actions had grimmer and more relentless consequences than your sins.

If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

A night in the arms of Venus, it was said, led to a lifetime on Mercury.

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina.

é que os homens, com satisfação, mudam de senhor pensando melhorar e esta crença faz com que lancem mão de armas contra o senhor atual, no que se enganam porque, pela própria experiência, percebem mais tarde ter piorado a situação.

nunca se deve deixar prosseguir uma crise para escapar a uma guerra, mesmo porque dela não se foge mas apenas se adia para desvantagem própria.

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.