Quotes About Consequence

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

Nous n'y connaissons pas encore de remède au mal que produit une phrase.

The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her husband as everything or nothing.

A man may be put to death by a thought.

The woman who allows herself to be found out deserves her fate.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision.

Remember – it's always easier to get forgiveness than permission

Sometimes the right thing to do... is the wrong thing.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

as their tongues met, Will knew he'd made a serious mistake. Fifteen years hadn't been enough to make him forget, and now, he had nowhere to run.

come of it?

What is done can never be undone.

Her whole life would have been different. Her whole life had hung on whether or not a man walked down a garden path and slipped on ice. If he hadn't slipped, she would have married someone else, lived in different places, had different children, perhaps even been happy. It was a dreadful thought.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

For each man that shall be damned shall be damned by his own guilt, and each man that is saved shall be saved by his own merit." Unperceived, here was the start of the modern world. When

Smite a villein and he will bless you; bless a villein and he will smite you.

the inadvertent by-product of the nobles' passionate pursuit of war.

Society's revenge matched its fright.

If I were a king, the mischief would be much greater; for I should ruin not only myself, but my subjects.

As most of the unhappiness in the world arises rather from disappointed desires than from positive evil, it is of the utmost consequence to attain just notions of the laws and order of the universe, that we may not vex ourselves with fruitless wishes, or give way to groundless and unreasonable discontent.

If we are creatures of God, we are morally bound to accomplish our destiny, and we have a right to do so freely, and to resist to the uttermost, as immoral, every assault made upon it. Admit duty as the basis of right, and every difficulty vanishes. Seek a rational basis of right, and you are precipitated into despotism or inconsequence.

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.