Quotes About Consequence

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

Vi sono esistenze predestinate in cui un primo sbaglio sconvolge l'intero avvenire.

Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.

D'Artagnan wondered at the fragile and unknown threads from which the fates of nations and the lives of men are sometimes hung.

A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.

Every year, therefore, the inequality of taxation separated classes and isolated individuals more deeply than ever before. From the moment when taxation had as its purpose, not to strike those most capable of paying, but those least capable of defending themselves against it, the monstrous consequence of sparing the rich and burdening the poor was inevitable.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

Just know that what's done can be undone, but what's undone can never again be.

What you wind up regretting aren't the things you do, it's what you don't do that you will never forgive yourself for.

Know what you want, and be sure of it, for regret gives birth to more regret and nothing more.

Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud

sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.

What you set out into the world came back to you threefold.

The worst thing in the world is a wish that comes true.

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.

It was all he could do. To make her see what she was doing, what she was ending, and to punish her if she did so. Nobody would blame him. There might be finagling, there might be bargaining, there would certainly be humbling of herself, but there it was, like a round cold stone in her gullet, like a cannonball. And it would remain there unless she changed her mind entirely. The children stay

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

They think they can kill a continent—people, trees, buffalo—and then fly off to the moon and just forget about it. But you and me we're going to remember the people, the trees and the fucking buffalo. Goddammit.

It not my salvation she working for. And if she don't learn she got to face judgment for herself, she won't even have live.

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

Sometimes there is no good choice. Just the choice that has to be made.

APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.