Quotes About Consequence

What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn.

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

Sic semper tyrannis [Thus always to tyrants].

Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity].

La medicina no empezó como un deporte intelectual pensado para ejercitar nuestro ingenio ante un diagnóstico enigmático o un misterio fisiológico, sino que lo hizo como consecuencia de ciertos sentimientos específicos de los pacientes y de los sentimientos que estos despertaban en los primeros médicos;

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is not death but the inability to do what should be done at the right time

What's it going to be then, eh?

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

What's it going to be then, eh?

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

The upperclassman hands over a third pail. "Throw it," commands Bastian. The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant tilts his head. Frederick pours the water onto the ground. "I will not.

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?

In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you're this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent, and eventually it becomes time to take them out of the world.

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

that a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.

According to Dio, he promised not to "take any cruel action simply because I have conquered

Octavian decided that they should be put to death.

Octavian merely replied: "That's a matter for the carrion birds to decide.

both Sextus' fleet and infantry held back. This was a serious error

the consequence was unfortunate.

Antony's final mistake was to let his slow baggage train