Quotes About Consequence

It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

In every action ask thyself, How does it affect me? Shall I regret it? But

We do not think that Jesus thought that the purpose of his life, his vocation, was his death. His purpose was what he was doing as a healer, wisdom teacher, social prophet, and movement initiator. His death was the consequence of what he was doing, but not his purpose.

NOXIAE POENA PAR ESTO (let the punishment fit the crime).

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

I´ll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that´s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much.

Sorry solves nothing

The CorpSeCorps always substituted rumour for action, if action would cost them anything. They believed in the bottom line.

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. We thought we could do better. Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always mean worse, for some.

Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

too many postponements & regrets

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

Alcohol's a depressant, it will let me down later.

Everyone believed him of course, but you always knew with Salome that if anyone's head was going to roll it wouldn't be hers.

At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone.

It was the feet they'd do, for a first offense. They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. After

Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words. Maybe

I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that's how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland.

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

But such messages can be dangerous. Think twice before you wish, and especially before you wish to make yourself into the hand of fate. (Think twice,said Reenie. Laura said,Why only twice? )