Quotes About Consequence

Maybe this is karma.

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

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

The end excuses any evil.

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.

And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.

Oh no no, I think I've just called down a dreadful curse upon myself

Time, seeing all things, has found You out as you did not foresee.

La insolencia produce al tirano.

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me. Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you. Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever they please. Antigone to Theben's king Creon

The punishment begins here—where will the end be?

What you think later makes you wrong before.

vengeance no one outruns

Do it or don't do it — you will regret both.

I see it perfectly; there are two possible situations - once can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture…For if I have ventured amiss – very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all – who then helps me?

A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as a slave who did not become free

Rain drops are not the ones who bring the clouds.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.