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Quotes About Consequences

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
~ Patricia Briggs
He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. "You need to be more careful," he growled. "Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt." I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, "The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave." "I have no doubt about it." His voice was more satisfied then contrite.
~ Patricia Briggs
People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.
~ Patricia Briggs
People who stand in the way of my mate's ability to get herself out of trouble often feel like they were hit by buses. I think this might be the first time it is literally true, though.
~ Patricia Briggs
And that, children, is why ultimatums are a bad idea, said a memory speaking in the Marrok's voice.
~ Patricia Briggs
Mercedes," said Asil in a cheerful voice. "You are going to get me killed at last. Bran would not do it, but I believe your mate will have no trouble.
~ Patricia Briggs
Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey)
~ Patricia Briggs
He knows about sacrificing himself for the good of the whole.That's what soldiers do.It's not the torture he can't forgive me for. Nor deceiving him about his people. It's because I put you in harm's way he is so angry" Then she said, very calmly, "If I could kill you, I would" - Mrsilia
~ Patricia Briggs
People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.
~ Patricia Briggs
feeding grad students to the bears wasn't a good idea, might give them ideas.
~ Patricia Briggs
If Buffalo Singer ever came to her in a dream again, she would make sure he regretted it.
~ Patricia Briggs
Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.
~ Patricia Briggs
Anna shook her head. 'Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.
~ Patricia Briggs
I told them,' he said in a clear, carrying voice, 'that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
~ Patricia Briggs
She needs feeding up. Leo never could take care of the gifts he was given.' 'He wasn't given Anna,' Charles said. 'He hunted her down.' Tag's face stilled. 'He Changed an Omega by force?
~ Patricia Briggs
She stepped back, his hand left suspended in the gap between them, and demanded, "Did you get Lily pregnant?
~ Unknown
You can't go taking the law into your own hands, Cade. Think about Lily." "I am thinking about Lily. If I weren't thinking about Lily I'd be out of here now, chasing Satan back where he came from.
~ Patricia Rice
The most consistent road to unhappiness that I know comes from turning a blind eye to reality. We do this when we wish potato chips weren't fattening and eat them anyway put off doing the bills just one more day live an unhealthy lifestyle, fail to heed warnings on the label (or don't even read the label), or focus on our partner's shortcomings and spend time trying to talk him into doing things our way.
~ Unknown
Certainty about one's moral stance might be soothing, but it tends to blinker us to damage we are about to cause.
~ Patricia S. Churchland
Believe only when you grasp the consequences of your belief.
~ Unknown
Humans are the killers of magic, you see.....People can be cruel, unkind, mean, selfish. We can be a great many dreadful thing, and at one time or another we are all guilty of bad behavior. What we fail to realize is that we are the only ones who can do such things.
~ Patrick Carman
Las máquinas hacían la vida más fácil, o eso es lo que creíamos, pero invadían y despedazaban la tierra y el cielo de maneras que apenas comprendíamos. Estas dos primeras innovaciones, el cultivo y la creación de maquinas que trabajaran para nosotros, tendrían que habernos enseñado a cuidar del mundo, pero no lo hicieron. Lo único que aprendimos fue a inventar formas de destruirlo mejor.
~ Patrick Carman
You can go into Arcadia and get anybody you want killed for two shots of likker.
~ Unknown
The feeling of the morning after the night before is not a sensation endured by the dissolute only: every morning, for every human being, is in some sort a morning after the night before...
~ Patrick Hamilton