Quotes About Consequences

An unnamed favour is a dangerous thing to give...

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one," Vivi says. "Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

Taryn had warned me I was going to get myself killed, and I bragged that I was ready for it, but I am not. "I think I'll take

no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.

All I have bought myself is worse problems, no matter how good it felt to salve my pride.

If he could not get the High King's attention for something good, then perhaps he could get it for something really, really bad.

This is just a game,' Nicasia says. 'But sometimes we play too hard with our toys. And then they break.' 'It's not like we drowned you ourselves,' Valerian calls.

For the first time, I see the panic on his face, the sort that he ought to have felt all along. Too late, and part of him knows it. But he denies it a moment later, the knowledge surfacing and being shoved back down. Some things seem too terrible to seem possible.

Cardan looks at me with helpless rage... The fury in his eyes is familiar, the glitter of them like banked fire, like coals burning hotter than flames ever could. This time I deserve it. I promised he was going to be able to walk away from the Court and all its manipulations. I promised he would be free from all this. I lied.

I promised he would be free from all this. I lied.

Kill him, a part of me says, a part I remember from the night I took him captive. Kill him before he makes you love him.

I will make him proud of me. Everyone else, I will make very, very sorry.

I keep my head down, as I probably should have done in the first place. And if I curse Cardan, then I have to curse myself, too, for being the fool who walked right into the trap he set for me.

That's what comes of hungering for something. You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That's the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realised I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks," Taryn says. "Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Why do we kill people, who have killed people, to show that killing people is wrong?

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Toplumu, aç?kgöz davran?p herkesin zarar?na kendi mutlulu?unu kurma kuram?yla aç?klamak y?k?c? bir ö?retidir,bunun a??r ç?kar?mlar?, yasaya, insanlara ya da bireye verdi?i zarar? bile belli etmeden, gizlice elde edilen her ?eyin iyi ve uygun biçimde kazan?ld???na inand?r?r insan?.

Seguimos viendo, y quizá tememos a quienes están al tanto del daño que nos hacen, mientras que el que hiere ignorando la profundidad de su herida es tenido como un tonto, por un zote que no sabe sacar partido de nada y todo el mundo le desprecia.