Quotes About Consequence

Se você não quer correr o risco. Talvez seja melhor não jogar nada.

We know what our punishment is, but what was our sin?

because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it isn't - for making a fool of yourself, offering yourself to others to laugh at, to jeer, that takes guts.

No noose is good noose'—as the condemned man said on the scaffold.

Why had she hesitated to say they were lost, why hadn't she told him to turn the car around, to reverse their course, oh please!—but she had not dared offend him. The black water was her fault, she knew. You just don't want to offend them. Even the nice ones.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.

In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices. Dr. Kathleen Hall

You can never make a wrong choice and get a right result.

I like to say that wisdom is choosing to do today what we will be satisfied with tomorrow or later on in life.

Every good and right decision that we make helps overturn the results of the bad ones.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit—you choose.

words are powerful and should not be spoken frivolously.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

In fact, the only rash, ill-advised thing of any import he'd done in recent years was his behavior the weekend he'd met Elizabeth Cameron.

But you have to be sure you can handle the situation before you jump into it...sex is a commitment...once you're there you can't go back to holding hands.

Let's say your life depended on it. You have to choose or you'll die." "Which one would you choose?" Caitlin said. "I asked you first." "Okay," Caitlin said. "I guess I'd take Von." Good, Vix thought. Because she had already chosen Bru for herself.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER

As the saying goes, I don't want his blood on the rug.

It is strange to find ourselves people of consequence.

Action is a business of risk; the real question is the magnitude of that risk.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Gilmour had to laugh. He's a cop, he thought, for the same reason that I am. He's a cop because, every once in awhile, he got to put a bad guy away. Forever. After