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Quotes About Consequences

It's right he's paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.
~ Nora Roberts
I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.
~ Nora Roberts
Mr. Tarmack,if you try to put a jockey on this horse, I'll have you up on charges.In fact,I'm damn well having you up on charges regardless.
~ Nora Roberts
I believe strongly in the threefold rule. What you send out into the universe, good or bad, comes back at you threefold. But I'd risk whatever came at me to send out something that would drop that bitch like a stone down a bottomless well for trying to hurt you or my baby.
~ Nora Roberts
I love you. I'm in love with you. She heard absolutely nothing for ten full seconds. And when he did speak, she caught the faintest trace of fear mixed in with the annoyance. Hell. No good deed goes unpunished.
~ Nora Roberts
The cops, we know that the victims, the ones who are broken or shattered or dead . . . or dead, they need somebody to stand up for them, to say, 'Goddamn it, it is your fault. You did this, and you have to pay for it, no matter if your mother beat you or your father . . . No matter what, you don't have the right to damage the next guy.' 
~ Nora Roberts
If it was either of them, they're going to look a whole lot worse than you before I'm finished.
~ Nora Roberts
Não acredito que o Pitte ou a Rowena queiram fazer-nos mal. Além disso, sei tomar conta de mim. - Porque será que as mulheres dizem sempre isso depois de se meterem numa grande alhada? - Porque os homens vêm sempre atrás delas a tornar as coisas piores.
~ Nora Roberts
When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.
~ Nora Roberts
She's just mean. I guess some people are, and if they never pay a real price for it, they just get meaner.
~ Nora Roberts
I thought about hunting him down, beating the crap out of him." "I'll hold your coat, then you can hold mine.
~ Nora Roberts
As pessoas que estão preparadas para usar a violência e o homicídio como instrumentos normais de política nunca podem sentir-se livres do medo de que outros possam recorrer aos mesmos instrumentos contra eles.
~ Norbert Elias
They [combatants in the Thirty Years' War] wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not learned since, that war only breeds war.
~ Norman Davies
The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems. Helping
~ Norman L. Geisler
if there is no God, everything is lawful
~ Norman L. Geisler
Romans 5:14—Is it fair to judge all people because of Adam's sin?
~ Norman L. Geisler
When given the choice, we'd all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we'll all be sad later.
~ Chuck Klosterman
So this, I suspect, is where we really begin: In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.
~ Chuck Klosterman
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
~ Chuck Palahniuk