Quotes About Consequence

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

A day may sink or save a realm.

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

As usual, I have reaped the bitter fruits of my own error- and must reap them to the end.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don't know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

People don't change, love. React first, think later, regret at leisure.

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you also to blame if his choice is the wrong one?

One man's sin does not justify another's.

Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.

Alas, hoist with my own petard.

If a man could only learn that you are not punished for the sin, but by it.