Quotes About Consequence

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.

A mistake would have been fatal. -Sherlock Holmes-

What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?' 'That's not good, that's triumph

The least Charles could have done,' Constance said, considering seriously, 'was shoot himself through the head in the driveway.

I personally preferred to chance the arsenic," Uncle Julian said.

It was going to happen sooner or later, in any case, Eleanor said. But of course no matter when it happened it was going to be my fault.

But once—and whenever you hear but once, you know trouble's coming—something happened.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

We once more find here an illustration of the truth that every exaggeration contains the seed of its own undoing.

All of this could have been different if both of his parents had taken a breath.

Pyrrhus invaded Italy at the start of the campaigning season in 280 BC. In two brutal and bloody battles he successfully defeated the Romans. The Greek king, though, having seen so many of his soldiers slaughtered in achieving this success, was said to have remarked, 'With another victory like this, we will be finished!' (Hence our modern phrase 'pyrrhic victory'.)

A glorious victory has a funny way of erasing memories of the reasons why a victory was needed in the first place.

Shit . . . Well, in for a sestertius, in for a denarius.

For evil to flourish it takes only a few good men to do nothing.

Contact with the sword causes the same defilement whether it be through the hilt or the point.

Always do what will cost you the most.

I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. it was supposed to break, I explain after a pause, and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.

And this is the moment where I went wrong. This is the gut-churning, if-only instant. If I could go back in time, that's the moment I would march up to myself and say severely, Poppy, priorities . But you don't realize, do you? The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

I had a choice: Follow my heart or don't break his. I think in the end I broke a bit of both our hearts.

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

You can't go back in time and do life a different way.

A mistake isn't a mistake." Guy pauses. "Unless it can't be put right." As he says the words, his eyes seem to hold an extra significance.