Quotes About Consequence

Redemption and judgment are inseparable; the one can come only through the other.

A significant event in your life, and what you would or would not change about it. A significant event in your life. And what you would. Or would not. Change about it." Are you fucking kidding me? How about: not pulled the fucking trigger?

The more options there are, the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing about the option that you chose.

Unfortunately, the proliferation of choice in our lives robs us of the opportunity to decide for ourselves just how important any given decision is.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

It might be pleasant to be alternately victim and executioner.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.

Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

Confess and be hanged.

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

I want to make sure if I do something, I want to make sure it will help and not harm.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

I can't be selectively brave. I can't say something in the heat of the moment and then get scared when people raise their voice against my thoughts.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

I think the growing disregard for the environment, culture, and heritage is a natural consequence of capitalism.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.