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Quotes About Consequence

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
~ Terry Pratchett
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
~ W. S. Gilbert
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
~ Howard Dean
Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.
~ George Washington
You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
~ Harriet Doerr
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
~ Robert Jordan
I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.
~ Roger Zelazny
Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.
~ Bill Watterson
Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.
~ Creed Bratton
Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.
~ Rick Warren
The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.
~ Simon Kernick
We haven't stopped obeying. We just think first now." Isabel slapped the boy.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
So," the bearded man said, "we kill this man
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
A single drop, though it falls into an ocean, will yet cause a ripple
~ Margaret Weis
Très vite dans la vie il a été trop tard. À dix-huit ans il était déjà trop tard.
~ Marguerite Duras
It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.
~ Marian Keyes
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
~ Mario Puzo
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
~ Mario Puzo
Everyone is responsible for everything he does
~ Mario Puzo
I do not seek it or desire it. If I must, I will accept the punishment for all my sins.
~ Mario Puzo
Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?
~ Mario Puzo
Le haré una oferta que no podrá rechazar.
~ Mario Puzo
I asked god for a bike, but i know god doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
~ Mario Puzo