Quotes About Consequences

The great owners, striking at the immediate thing ... not knowing these things are results, not causes.

See. Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you?" "I don't want blame." "Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism.

It's the lie I'm thinking of. It might infect everything. If they ever found out you'd lied to them about this, the true things would suffer. They wouldn't believe anything then." "Yes, I see. But what can I tell them? I couldn't tell them the whole truth." "Maybe you can tell them a part truth, enough so that you won't suffer if they find out.

Homicide thats a big word means i killed a guy. seven years. im sprung in four for keep'n my nose clean. (18) the hich hiker is saying this to the truck driver and i think it puts alot of meanning to the book because the truck driver just realized that he could have just died. it adds suspense to the story and makes it kinda scary.

There is no explaining a series of misfortunes like that. Every man blames himself. People in their black minds remember sins committed secretly and wonder whether they have caused the evil sequence

It's like you said about knowing people. I hate her because I know why she went away. I know--because I've got her in me His head was down and his was voice was heartbroken. You've got the other too. Listen to me! You wouldn't even be wondering if you didn't have it. Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Whatever you do, it will be you who do it--not your mother.

Wisht I knowed what all the sins was, so I could do 'em.

Sometimes I think a do-gooder is the most dangerous thing in the world.

The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. There was sorrow in Kino's rage, but this last thing had tightened him beyond breaking.

Lee's voice said, "I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.

Ä°nan?lmayan bir doÄŸru adama bir yalandan çok daha fazla zarar verebilir. Zaman?m?z?n kabullenemeyeceÄŸi bir doÄŸruyu desteklemek büyük cesaret gerektirir. Bir cezas? vard?r, genellikle de çarm?ha gerilmektir bu ceza.

When any of his girls became pregnant they had the choice of leaving or of being aborted so brutally that a fair proportion died. In spite of this the girls usually chose abortion.

Nenhuma tribo selvagem, nenhum invasor foi alguma vez responsável pelas crueldades estúpidas e deliberadas dos alemães, que arrasaram a Ucrânia como crianças cruéis e frenéticas.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably--he grows confident of his ability to negotiate long words--misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.

If you just broke up with someone, be sad; if you just ran over somebody drunk driving, feel depressed. You shouldn't take a pill that makes you feel okay about terrible things.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

If we are unaware of what we are doing a good deal of the time, and we don't particularly like the way things turn out in our lives, perhaps it's time to pay closer attention, to be more in touch, to observe the choices we make and their consequences down the road.

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identifications and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are

Your trials last as long as your disobedience.

Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.