Quotes About Consequence

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause:

We are conducting an experiment with truth! Perhaps mankind will perish because of it! Fine!

Every error, of whatever kind, is a consequence of degeneration of instinct, disgregation of will: one has thereby virtually defined the bad. Everything good is instinct – and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection, the god is typically distinguished from the hero (in my language: light feet are the first attribute of divinity).

The refusal to love is hell.

Fatality makes us invisible.

That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.

Ann Fowler was sentenced to twenty lashes in 1637 for defaming a county justice, Adam Thorowgood, with the somewhat undeferential suggestion that Captain Thorowgood could "Kiss my arse.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

I felt guilty - like, I leaked this memo, and now there's going to be a witch hunt for the person who did it, and I'm not going to be able to deny it. That was when reality hit.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.