Quotes About Consequence

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

You've got to make a stand, show a bit of class, all you've got to do is say no, but you know you're going to hate yourself in the morning.

Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

curry plays a nostalgic, retrogressive role in British culinary culture; the proliferation of restaurants specializing in it is a consolation prize for the loss of world-historical consequence; we are to be understood as having given away the Empire and received in return, in delayed settlement of that very considerable invoice, the street-corner tandoori house.

driven crazy by not knowing which'll destroy us first, the H-bomb or the wrong fork at the dinner table,

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

The worst thing about adultery was that it made you see your life for what it was: something that was nearly impossible to escape.

She loved him, and she knew he loved her, but come on—if everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.

A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.

Jenny Casey, you've skewered the pooch this time.

Tis a night for the fall of kingdoms, Robert.

Kit had come to think of the Darkling Glass as a sort of consequence, reliable as a faithful hound; and it annoyed him to no end to find the thing suddenly misbehaving.

Moral compromises don't stop happening even when everyone involved is trying to do the right thing.

If I don't report on time, the biometrics wired into my central nervous system will explode, and that'll be it for me, you, and this lovely piece of functional archaeology.

What is it exactly," she asked, "that they mean by freedom? What does it affect? What is it besides an excuse for war?

having something that meant everything was a double-edged sword. It meant you had so much more to lose. ***

That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.

Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness.

Choose wisely when your time comes. Live-or-die- without regret.

but it was too late. Richard spit