Quotes About Consequences

In for a sheep, in for a gargant.

You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.

What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around. You see what I mean?

Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while, she said, but if you start feeling the need...

He was wrong," I said. "That doesn't make him a villain. It just makes him an asshole. It isn't reason enough to kill him.

Goodness, think of what trouble they'd be in if Folly hadn't practiced.

It's only cheating if he gets caught.

Do you know the difference between courage and foolhardiness, Dresden?" "Any insurance adjuster would say no." He waved a hand at my banter, as though that was all the acknowledgment it deserved. "Hindsight," he said. "Until the extended consequences of any action are known, it is both courageous and foolish. And neither." "Well," I said, "tonight you earned yourself a Schrödinger's Medal, I guess.

It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.

Fuel a love spell with rage and you're likely to get some odd side effects, for example.

It is one thing for you to say, 'Let the world burn.' It is another to say, 'Let Molly burn.' The difference is all in the name.

So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don't look at me like that. I'm telling you, it made sense at the time.

What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

none of us ever really escapes the past. It just keeps coming back to haunt you.

Michael sighed. Harry, God does protect us from harm -- it's part of what I and my brothers in arms are tasked to do. But He's a great deal less involved in protecting us from the consequences of our choices.

In real life, the chair doesn't break when you slug somebody with it, the way it does in the movies. The person you hit is the one who breaks.

Torelli's features darkened. "Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life." "God," I said. "I wish.

Yes," Aquitaine said quietly. "The Legions will pay a terrible price so that the residents of Riva can flee. But if they do not, the city will fall into chaos, and the civilians will die." He shook his head. "This way, perhaps half of the legionares will survive the retreat. Even odds. If we are forced to defend the city to our last man, they will all die, Countess. For nothing. And they know it." He nodded. "They'll fight.

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that, then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

had been taught long ago never to whimper or moan or to blame someone else for his troubles. Life is tough, so accept the consequences. With the good also comes the bad, and vice versa.

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