Quotes About Consequence

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.

A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.

Men will consider deeply before they buy a tie or choose a meal; but when it comes to throwing aside their purpose in life, possibly life itself, they do not think at all. They consent to be marshalled, controlled, exposed to unimagined shock, mutilation and death, with barely a tremor, and their reasons for complying, if indeed they have any, would comparen most shamefully with their reasons for doing anything else.

We live in a world," he has said, "where deliberately dimming the fucking sun might be less risky than not doing it.

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

they would never get over that night because they had said things that altered how they saw each other.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Cui s? m? vând?C?rei jivine s? m? închin?Ce icoan? sfânt? s? sf?râm?Ce inimi s? frâng?Ce minciuni s? spun? În sângele cui s? calc?

To openly defy Him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast us into Hell any moment He pleases, is the very height of insanity. To

Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything which interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal

You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take place will ever take place.

Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. La última carta la juega la Muerte.

Omnes vulnerant, postuma necat. Todas hieren, leyó. La última mata.

Como dice el camarada Stalin, donde hay un hombre puede haber delito.

En algunos momentos de la Historia, la pasividad es un crimen.

Hay cosas que no se pueden eludir, Corso. Hay castillos que deben arder y hombres que ahorcar; perros destinados a despedazarse entre sí, virtudes que decapitar, puertas que se han de abrir para que otros pasen por ellas...

Matar no es difícil, pensó Lorenzo Falcó. Lo difícil era elegir el momento y la manera.

Unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar.

the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Nadie debería irse sin dejar una Troya ardiendo a sus espaldas.

Lo ven? Él mismo confiesa.¿Qué esperamos para apalearlos? ?¡Alto! Si ha habido un crimen no va a borrarse con otro crimen.