Quotes About Consequence

Sooner or later Cleofes is gonna get it.

Satan came to a lawyer and told him he would give him fame and fortune in exchange for his soul and the souls of his wife and children. The lawyer hesitated and examined Satan closely.'Okay," he said,"what's the catch?

No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Those who may be troubled by that thought may think about what our country's willing slaughter of fifty five million innocent babies must do to their Creator.

not, let it be always known that the blood of our brothers and sisters….and grandchildren….will be on the hands of America's President. On America itself.

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

I think we were very foolish, you and I.

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

Thank haven, literally, for the moon," says the economist Susan George. "If it weren't there, supplying the gravity to slow down the earth's rotation, our days would last only about four hours, with constant gale-force winds. Nature doesn't work on the principle that faster is better". Industrial society, unfortunately, does work on that principle. As a consequence, it weighs heavily upon nature.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

Things are fearsome enough, without taking a road that must lead destruction.

The high shelf Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm, Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.

Mata algo en la gente, algo que no puede recobrarse

When one has had power in his grasp, and has failed to hold it, and has remained alive—what does one become?

The alternative is the sword over your heads,' he said. 'I know,' I agreed unhappily. 'But that isn't the way. A sword inside us would be worse.

we make our good luck or bad luck with our choices, actions and how we deal with the results.

if I take that shotgun

Well, he would never understand. His life had been everything he wanted, whereas she had gotten on the wrong train, all those years ago.