Quotes About Consequences

How inadequate we are in our attempts to bring nature under our control, Henry thought. How careless of us to believe that we can manipulate diseases to kill, rather than to cure. We're like schoolchildren playing with matches. One day we'll burn the house down.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive ... You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

We are called upon to obey and follow our Lord the Christ, but it is not because of any fear of Him or of the consequences if we did not follow; it is the love of Christ which constraineth us, as we are told in the Epistle for the first Sunday of Lend. It is because of our love and gratitude to Him that we must follow Him, that we must strain every nerve to make ourselves like Him. That is our reason--not fear but love.

In some ways I think every wrong turn I was to make . . . could be traced to moments of inaction, moments when I noticed things unfolding wrongly and failed to query or object.

She could have made different choices, but all that mattered were the ones she'd made.

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people -- because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it -- I don't care how good you are.

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.

People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.

Don't take me for a fool, Eve. That's not why you did it. You made a political calculation. You know that the DA hates me and wants to be the next mayor. You figured that aligning yourself with him would benefit you more than being tied to a sheriff who is already smeared by a prison-beating scandal.

She's suffered much worse than that," Duncan said. "Take a good, hard look at her." All heads turned to Eve. "She's only twenty-six years old. She's bruised, scarred, and filled with bird shot. How many times has she been in the hospital in the last five months? How many of her bones has she broken? She's paying a steep price for her bad decisions and is too arrogant and self-destructive to realize it.

Nine. You have nine. With seven different women. How many of those women did you marry? Zero. How many of those children have your name? Zero. How many of those kids did you visit?

And those deadbeat fathers weren't supporting their kids, either." Her mom had terrible taste in men, and poor judgment, and was the maker of most of her own troubles, but Eve wasn't going to concede a thing to this man. For the sake of this discussion, her mom was a saint.

Karma," Duncan said, "will always piss on your new shoes.

Why? Because you seduced my mother into bed with empty promises of big acting jobs, got her pregnant, and walked away without paying a dime of child support

It wasn't guilt over taking a life that shook him up and it wasn't because he was afraid of consequences he might face. It was the realization that he was something he wasn't before. Before he was a screenwriter and an author. Now he was also a killer.

In the morning, when my grandmother is in the kitchen, I will place enough of this powder into my sisters' and my porridge bowls. Mama and Dad will be sad, but it will be all right.

If Bobby had to guess, he'd say that killing folks was some kind of sickness where imagination and emotion got all mixed up. If

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.

He said they were afraid, and that fear makes stupid people do wicked things

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.