Quotes About Consequences

It was too late the day you met Kathy. It'd be you and Kathy – not you and me – if I let you live.

Il Paradiso e l'inferno ce li creiamo da soli.

There was something almost tasty and almost sexy in letting the annoying boy be punished by her husband. In standing blamelessly aside while the boy suffered for having hurt her. What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

He suspected that somewhere, somehow, this new technology was stupid or lazy. Some young engineer had taken a shortcut and failed to anticipate the consequences that he was suffering now. But because he didn't understand the technology, he had no way to know the nature of the failure or to take steps to correct it. And so the goddamned lights made a victim of him, and there wasn't a goddamned thing he could do except go out and spend.

There was something almost tasty and almost sexy in letting the annoying boy be punished by her husband. In standing blamelessly aside while the boy suffered for having hurt her. What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

As long as mitigating climate change trumps all other environmental concerns, no landscape on Earth is safe.

Let him get stoned, since everybody must.

They won the war but lost the peace

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

I think about all of the things I've done, Oskar. And all of the things I didn't do. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.

Razmišljam o svemu što sam u?inila.I o svemu što nisam u?inila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povu?i stvari koje nikada nisam u?inila.

Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?

But it's actually pretty easy to say horrible things: retard, cunt, whatever. In a way, it's even easier because we know exactly how bad the words are. There's nothing scary about them. Part of what makes something really hard to say is the not knowing.

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.

Modificar el pasado no es modificar un solo hecho; es anular sus consecuencias, que tienden a ser infinitas

We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

S? modifici trecutul nu înseamn? s? modifici un singur fapt, ci s?-i anulezi consecinÈ›ele, care tind s? fie infinite. Cu alte cuvinte, am putea spune c? înseamn? s? creezi dou? istorii universale.

Nuestra cobardía y nuestra desidia tienen la culpa de que el mañana y el ayer sean iguales