Quotes About Consequence

A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

Vick learned long ago that might have is a game with no winners. Few games do have winners, in the end.

They say it's men with nothing to lose you should fear. But it's them who fear most.

Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I've earned it. I've deserved it. I've sought it out. Such is my punishment.

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters." "That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

There's no curse like getting what you want.

Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.

One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are . . . this.

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

Sometimes Wile wondered whether a cause could be right that needed folk burned, cut and otherwise mutilated.

Minden varázslatnak ára van, és azt senki sem fizeti meg szívesen.

Cuanto menos tiempo tienes, menos quieres arriesgar el que te queda

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

Doubts and regrets, Isern. They're the cost of casting a shadow.

First it is done to us, then we do it to others, then we order it done. Such is the way of things.

It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

There is a time for wondering what a man wants, and there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.

Ah yes! I had the chance to leave all this behind. Yet I chose to come back. Change is not a simple thing, eh, Sergeant? I entirely see and understand the pointlessness and waste of it all, yet I do it anyways. Does that make me worse or better than the man who does it thinking himself ennobled by a righteous cause? Or the man who does it for his own profit, without the slightest grain of thought for right or wrong? Or are we all the same?

It's a sorry fact that the man who strikes first usually strikes last,

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.

But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.

I did a good thing, and so, of course, there is a price to be paid.

He squirmed as though he was the one who'd killed Edwal and named Thorn a murderer. All he'd done was watch. Watch and do nothing.