Quotes About Consequence

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Wha-ja-do? Break your doll?

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Dios ciega al que quiere perder.

Only yesterday an express train tore up a whole flock of sheep not far from here, over forty dead animals, flung through the air like cotton-wool balls, the good shepherd fallen asleep drunk somewhere, the dog in the field alone, not a hope. Now the shepherd has to bear joint responsibility for the whole loss, or don't you think he bears a responsibility, dear television audience, write and let us know what you think, it's your views that count.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

Someone whose only reason for not acting in an antisocial way was that they were scared of getting in trouble with God . . . where did you even start with such a person?

He left before she woke up—because of how disgusted he was by women's tears and prayers, "which change everything yet are really of no consequence." I thought about that a lot: about what she could have said that would have been of consequence.

If you do things right, NOTHING will go wrong. Conversely if you do things wrong, NOTHING will be right.

But, in a sense, nothing in life is planned—or everything is—because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step before; the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

You have to bear in mind the punishment. If an inmate ran away they would kill fifty other inmates. How can you accept that responsibility?

Given a rule of law that [those] conditions generically described as A produce a certain legal liability or other consequence X, does the specific fact or group of facts n fall within the genus A?

Verus Quid Factum

He's suffering from Politician's Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Walking tall into manhood, I now recognized that life should have purpose and a context in which to communicate that purpose to others..... if there is nobody there to learn what you have learned, then your life is without consequency, no matter how much wealth or wisdom you have attained.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

But not unusual, for good girls sometimes come to bad ends.

É verdade, o cachorro morreu. Cumpriu sua sentença e encontrou-se com o único mal irremediável, aquilo que é a marca do nosso estranho destino sobre a Terra, aquele fato sem explicação que iguala tudo o que é vivo num só rebanho de condenados, porque tudo que é vivo morre.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

To some writers, nothing appears of so much consequence as the skillful regulation of property; because it is this much coveted object that gives birth to most disputes and most seditions.

It is not to avoid cold or hunger that tyrants cover themselves with blood; and states decree the most illustrious rewards, not to him who catches a thief, but to him who kills an usurper.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.